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Defiance, Texas-size

By Melody Evans and Kirk Redmond

I am a Texan, know the state well, even worked at the death penalty resource center there representing Texas death row habeas appeals. It is a vicious state. Still, you'd think at some point, Texas would blink. But not today, at least not so far.Texas is slated to execute Jose Medellin tomorrow "in defiance of the United Nations, the Organization of American States and national leaders . . . . Texas has rebuffed not only the U.N. and Bush, but Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey and the judicial arm of the Organization of American States, which has demanded Medellin receive a new trial." (Houston Chronicle article here). The issue is whether Texas's failure to hold a hearing advising Medellin, a Mexican citizen, of his right to contact the Mexican consulate...continue to full post

Full post as published by Kansas Federal Defender on August 04, 2008 (boomark / email).