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Today's Medellin Coverage

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In the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Dave Montgomery has, "A last-minute effort to stop an execution," from the DC bureau.Through years of appeals that took his attorneys on two trips to the U.S. Supreme Court, Medellin?s assertion of his treaty rights was embraced by an unlikely coalition of legal allies that included the Bush administration, the International Court of Justice and high-ranking diplomatic officials. Now, in the countdown to his death by injection, those same forces are united in a final effort to delay his execution and allow a court hearing on his consular-access claims. Allowing the execution to go forward without a hearing, they say, would discredit the United States? commitment to its treaty obligations and prompt other countries to retaliate against U...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 04, 2008 (boomark / email).