Posted on 07/01/2011 2:17:34 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
On July 7, Humberto Leal Garcia, Jr is scheduled to die. He was convicted in a Texas court in 1994 of rape and murder–a capital offense for which he was sentenced to death. But this case is different from other Texas death penalty cases for the fact that Leal is a Mexican citizen. When he was arrested, he was denied the right under international law to contact the Mexican consulate.
In 2004, Mexico sued the United States at the International Court of Justice for denying one of its citizens the his right under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. The ICJ ruled in favor of Mexico–and ordered the United States to reconsider the case. Even President Bush sent a letter to Texan authorities saying that Texas should review the case. Indeed, President Bush’s former top legal adviser at the State Department is outspoken on this:....
(Excerpt) Read more at undispatch.com ...
Fox News is reporting that the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has asked Gov. Rick Perry to commute the death sentence to life in prison for Humberto Leal Garcia.
Senator Patrick Leahy and the U.N. never pass up or let a crisis go to waste.
The interesting twist and background is that the convicted murderer's lawyers say this should be allowed because in 2005 President George W. Bush agreed with the international court ruling that said 50 other inmates should get new hearings on their consular rights. But the U.S. Supreme Court in their wisdom overruled him and blunted the international court decision. The 5th CC of Appeals cited that SC decision to deny one of his appeals in 2009.
Adria Sauceda, the 16 year old girl that Humberto Leal Garcia, Jr brutally raped, mutilated and murdered never got all this justice.
Is arlen sphincter co-counseling ?
Give him a quarter to call the Mexican Consulate and invite them to his execution.
Trying indeed! But poorly. Not only can the Governor NOT do any such thing without a recommendation from the parole board, Perry, regardless of how much he's bashed on FR as a non-conservative, will very likely issue a statement that will tell the UN to go to hell.
Remember this one?
Gov Goodhair can't. A decision by a board is required before the Gov can sign off on it.
/johnny
Hmmm. He’s an illegal. Broke the law just by coming over here. Convicted of killing someone on American territory. That gives him the same rights as a foreign spy—none. Skip the injection. Just shoot him. Today.
No kidding!
“Not proven” by the U.N. human rights cabal.
The governor would have to receive a favorable recommendation from the Board of Pardons and Paroles to consider the clemency requested, according to the spokesperson for the governor.
The UN can go pound sand.
Let's take bets...how long will it be before a Perry "basher" gets on this thread (all two dozen of them) and blames the Governor? Probably won't take long!
Not if wants to keep his job.....
Not for more than 15 seconds.
CW..remember when W. refused to commute the death sentence for Karla Faye Tucker (I think that was her name?) despite hundreds of requests from clergy and others. I wished he had done so, but surely, if she wasn’t worthy of avoid execution, then this POS isn’t..
When he was arrested, wouldn’t he have had the right to contact someone, whether an attorney or the Mexican consulate or a family member or whatever? And if it were someone else, certainly they could have contacted the consulate for him. Was it that as a foreigner he was expressly supposed to have been told that he had the right to contact his consulate?
Either way, it sounds like the Supreme Court settled this issue—and that should be the end of it.
Yes. I remember that. There was a lot of push for a stay, as she had used her time since the murder to improve her life. If I recall correctly, she had become very religious and had a lot of people pulling for her to spend her life in prison instead. I don’t think the Left cared too much about her except for how they could use her to make President Bush look “mean-spirited.”
Governor Perry’s Response to the EU on the Death Penalty
Aug. 21, 2007
“230 years ago, our forefathers fought a war to throw off the yoke of a European monarch and gain the freedom of self-determination. Texans long ago decided that the death penalty is a just and appropriate punishment for the most horrible crimes committed against our citizens. While we respect our friends in Europe, welcome their investment in our state and appreciate their interest in our laws, Texans are doing just fine governing Texas.”
While I don't support Perry's presidential ambitions, due to his consistent RINO tendencies, I've got to admit that he gave the EU a swift Texas boot up the azz with that.
Stay out of Texas, UN
How gauche!
4th of July is right around the corner, let's light'em up then.
And, if we aim the Firework's just right, we can send that POS back to Mexico in style!
FUUN
First, liberals want illegal aliens to have the same rights that American citizens have: College tuition, can't be deported, bring their entire extended families over with them, etc. They wish to make it so that nobody can legally distinguish an illegal alien from an undocumented citizen.
But when they're caught red-handed at the scene of a bloody murder, they're extra-special citizens who get to contact their home country's consulate. They get all sorts of special protections.
Sorry, they can't have it both ways.
Now we can't execute him because doing so would put American troops at risk of the same thing if they're captured? As if not executing him will win our Apache pilots a 'Get Out of Jihad Free' card if their helicopters are shot down and they're captured by the Taliban? Oh, sure.
You know that Humberto Leal Garcia is super extra triple guilty when that annoying nun Sister Jean Whatshername shows up in his prison cell and insists that he's got brain damage, ate paint chips and drank Mercury from broken thermometers as a kid, was constantly beaten by his father, continually raped by a Catholic priest, didn't understand the charges against him because he's a borderline retard, and after all that couldn't possibly have been the violent murderer he's accused of being because he's such a loveable fluffy teddy bear who wouldn't hurt a fly.
That broad ought to stop her little anti death penalty protests. She only makes condemned prisoners look guiltier.
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