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: SCOTUSBLOGWorld Court: U.S. execution broke global law
By Akin Gump Supreme Court Practice Group
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The International Court of Justice ruled unanimously on Monday that the U.S. government violated a duty under international law by failing to stop Texas from excuting a Mexican national last summer. The Court located at The Hague in the Netherlands, however, seemed to absolve the U.S. Supreme Court of any specific violation even though it refused to block that execution
Even while finding a breach by the U.S. governmen as a whole, the international court did not attach any legal consequences t read more
Full post as published by SCOTUSBLOG on January 19, 2009 (boomark / email).
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