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Judge Denies Stay in Chi Case

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Texas is preparing to execute another foreign citizen, Heliberto Chi, a Honduran.  Like Medellin, Chi was not provided consular notification that he could contact his government.  Chi is not covered by the International Court of Justice ruling in Avena, which was limited to Mexican nationals on death rows in America. "Fort Worth judge denies execution delay for Arlington killer," is the report in the Fort Worth Star Telegram written by John Moritz and Nathaniel Jones.An Arlington killer scheduled to die Thursday for gunning down a store manager during a robbery in 2001 lost a bid Tuesday to have his execution date set aside when a judge rejected the argument that putting him to death would violate international law. Lawyers for Heliberto Chi, a 29-year-old native of Honduras, had asked state District Judge Phillip Vick of Fort Worth to at least postpone the execution on grounds that their client was denied an opportunity to visit with a representative from his native country at the time of his arrest and in the days after...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 06, 2008 (boomark / email).