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Medellin Execution Allowed -- UPDATED

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That's the headline of Lyle Denniston's latest post at SCOTUS Blog.Splitting 5-4, the Supreme Court refused Tuesday night to delay the execution in Texas of Mexican national Jose Ernesto Medellin.  The majority?s unsigned opinion, and dissents by each of the other four Justices, can be read here. It will be Texas' fifth execution of 2008; the 17th execution in the nation this year.  Texas has by far the most active execution chamber in the nation. With Medellin's execution Texas will have been responsible for 410 of the country's 1,116 executions since 1977; more than 36% of all the executions in America. While Texas asserted that it provided Jose Medellin additional review -- a fact disputed by Medellin's attorneys, Mexico, and the chronology of the case -- Texas has offered additional review to the other Mexican citizens on Texas death row, as noted in this earlier post from today...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 05, 2008 (boomark / email).