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From UK's The Independent

From UK's The Independent David Usborne writes, "The Big Question: Why is the United States still imposing the death penalty?" from New York. Here's an excerpt: What America does in its own prisons is its own business, most of the time. That was not true on Tuesday night, however, when a lethal injection was administered to a Mexican national in Huntsville prison, Texas, convicted in a case of gang rape and strangulation of two teenage girls in Houston 15 years ago. The death of Jose Medellin brought an instant diplomatic protest from Mexico, which had demanded that he and 50 other Mexicans on death row in America be allowed consular access, as required by a treaty to which the US is a signatory. The International Court of Justice in The Hague has twice in the past five years ruled that the US should hold hearings on the status of foreign nationals on death row...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on August 07, 2008 (boomark / email).