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Wire Service Coverage of Medellin

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Jose Medellin is scheduled to be executed in Huntsville tomorrow evening. His case weaves together a horrific crime, international law, U.S. treaty obligations, and a Supreme Court ruling that has produced uncertainty in business and financial circles. Let's start with report yesterday from three major wire services. Mike Graczyk writes AP's ,"Texas defies World Court, Bush on execution."The planned execution this week of a man convicted in one of Houston's most brutal murder cases in a generation has become among the most contentious in the state that has the nation's busiest capital punishment system. International attention has been focused on the execution of convicted killer Jose Medellin scheduled for Tuesday. The International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court, said the Mexican-born Medellin and some 50 other Mexicans on death row around the nation should have new hearings in U...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 04, 2008 (boomark / email).