I’d be interested to read what some of our legal scholars have to say about this.
It seems to me that the World Court might have a voice if the United States were the entity that is carrying out these executions. But the entity is the State of Texas. I would think the World Court has no jurisdiction over this.
What say y’all?
Bush, of course, has traditionally taken the Mexican side, while the Supreme Court sided with Texas in Medellin.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/25/scotus.texas/