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The Chi Execution

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In the New York Times, David Stout reports, "Texas Executes Inmate After High Court Steps Aside."An  Honduran immigrant convicted of murder was put to death in Texas on Thursday evening after the  Supreme Court declined to block the execution, despite his lawyers? complaints that he should have been told that he could get assistance early on from Honduran diplomats.       The court?s ruling came without dissent and without comment. The immigrant, Heliberto Chi, 29, was executed in Huntsville, Tex., for shooting to death his former boss during a robbery at a men?s store in Arlington in 2001. Mr. Chi?s execution is the second one this week with diplomatic implications. On Tuesday night, Texas executed José Medellín, a Mexican national, in defiance of an international court ruling and despite pleas from the Bush administration that he be given a new hearing...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 08, 2008 (boomark / email).