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Medellin Coverage

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

Here is some morning-after coverage of the Medellin execution. Michael Graczyk has this story for AP, and we finally get some coverage of the fact that Medellin has already had the judicial prejudice determination required by the Avena holding. "State and federal courts -- on three separate occasions -- have already satisfied the World Court's suggestion that American courts examine whether Medellin suffered actual legal harm when authorities did not inform him about certain rights under the Vienna Convention," said Jerry Strickland, a spokesman for the Texas Attorney General's Office. "On all three occasions, state and federal courts concluded that Medellin suffered no legal harm." But not so in the New York Times. James McKinley's story characterizes the execution as "in defiance of an international court ruling," with no mention of the issue of whether there has been actual compliance...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on August 06, 2008 (boomark / email).