Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> StandDown Texas Project

Criminal Law

: StandDown Texas Project

Death and Texas

By standdown

That's the title of Maura Kelly's column in The Guardian.  It's subtitled, "Governor Rick Perry and his state's flawed judicial system are now executing convicts for crimes they did not commit."Texans - or at least governor Rick Perry and his supporters - seem to love the death penalty almost as much as flying the state flag. And last week, the good ol' Texan bloodlust came under international scrutiny once again when the state put to death a man born in Mexico, where capital punishment is prohibited. During the trial of death row inmate José Ernesto Medellín, he was not given the opportunity to seek legal help from Mexican consulates, a right granted under the 1963 Vienna Convention. Appeals from all over the world - including one from the UN's International Court of Justice and another from President Bush himself - pointed out the discrepancy and asked the state to delay the execution till Medellín's case could be further reviewed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 15, 2008 (boomark / email).