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Texas Set To Execute Gang Rapist/Murderer
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0731/p03s05-usju.html ^

Posted on 07/31/2008 6:59:34 PM PDT by instantgratification

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1 posted on 07/31/2008 6:59:34 PM PDT by instantgratification
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My view is despite the Convention, he should be executed. The case turns on a technicality.

The gangbanger had a fair trial. His victims did not.


2 posted on 07/31/2008 7:01:39 PM PDT by instantgratification
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He can choose the new “lemon fresh” scented pancuronium bromide.


3 posted on 07/31/2008 7:03:11 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Without the second, the rest are just politicians' BS.)
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To: instantgratification

I say bring back hanging, just for this sad sack o’ sh*t.


4 posted on 07/31/2008 7:04:08 PM PDT by mkjessup (If the choice is a suntanned Jimmy Carter or a Cranky Old Guy, I'm with the Cranky Old Guy)
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It’s time we told them (World Court, UN, etc) to “go pound salt”!


5 posted on 07/31/2008 7:04:44 PM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: instantgratification

Allright Texas!!! You stand strong.


6 posted on 07/31/2008 7:04:53 PM PDT by fwdude (If marriage can mean anything, then marriage means nothing.)
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To: instantgratification

On with the execution. Old Europe is wrong once again.


7 posted on 07/31/2008 7:05:37 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: mkjessup

Let it be soon...


8 posted on 07/31/2008 7:06:59 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: instantgratification

Republic of Texas trumps international law.


9 posted on 07/31/2008 7:07:06 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (BARACK OBAMA WILL SAVE US! HE HAS RISEN!!)
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To: mkjessup

Hanging is too good for him.Tie him to a stake and let me set my dogs on him.


10 posted on 07/31/2008 7:07:12 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (168 grains of instant conflict resolution)
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To: instantgratification

Gov Perry was on Mark Davis talk radio today about this. Final decision Tuesday as he has to get report from Pardons and Parole bunch. Expect TX to infuse this illegal piece of garbage despite all the sympathizers. And good riddance.


11 posted on 07/31/2008 7:08:01 PM PDT by Hattie
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World Court opinions should have zero standing in the United States (or any allegedly sovereign country for that matter)


12 posted on 07/31/2008 7:09:07 PM PDT by Arkinsaw
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Execute him.
Screw the World Court.


13 posted on 07/31/2008 7:10:40 PM PDT by Outland (Liberalism is a mental disorder. Socialism is a deep psychosis. Communism is brain cancer.)
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The problem is that the US wants to ensure its citizens have consular access when it is abroad, so from that perspective, the World Court is needed. I think if this were not a big election year, Congress may have intervened.

A big problem in a lot of these cases is Mexico always demands its nationals who commit crimes not face the death penalty. It doesn’t look at whether the accused got a fair trial. And, in this case, the gangbanger was only “nominally” Mexican - a Mexican citizen raised in the U.S. Mexico should not have taken this to the World Court. Lots of Americans and Canadians languish for years in Mexican prisons if they fail to buy their way out.


14 posted on 07/31/2008 7:13:43 PM PDT by instantgratification
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Unfortunately, three of the other gangbanger rapists got life sentences. One, 14 at the time, is serving up to 40 years. The other two were sentenced to death, but were minors (barely), and the USSC overturned their sentences.

“Life” is not “life” in Texas. Eventually, those animals will all be released back on the streets.


15 posted on 07/31/2008 7:16:42 PM PDT by instantgratification
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I don’t see the World Court meddling in the affairs of third world countries who brutally kill people for petty things. But then they come down on us for executing someone who committed a crime that is beyond despicable.


16 posted on 07/31/2008 7:19:09 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (If Islam conquers the world, the Earth will be at peace because the human race will be killed off.)
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17 posted on 07/31/2008 7:22:00 PM PDT by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve,and have served,to keep us free)
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They can only intervene if a foreigner is involved, and the foreigner’s country takes the case to the World Court.

In this case, the World Court said the cases should be reviewed to determine if the lack of assistance tainted the outcome. I think that really, this was a delay tactic by Medellin’s legal team. I highly doubt he would have received a different sentence in any circumstance.


18 posted on 07/31/2008 7:24:00 PM PDT by instantgratification
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I read the facts and they were really brutal.

I do believe the sentence fits the crime, and note, it has been fifteen years since the crime.


19 posted on 07/31/2008 7:26:15 PM PDT by instantgratification
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If this court does not want them to die, these perverts can live with them and their daughters.


20 posted on 07/31/2008 7:33:01 PM PDT by chiefqc
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