Posted on 07/18/2008 6:08:12 AM PDT by Zakeet
Despite pleas from the White House and the State Department, as well as an international court order to review their cases, Texas will execute five Mexicans on death row, a spokeswoman for the governor said Thursday. The first of the executions — that of José Ernesto Medellín, 33, convicted in the 1993 rape and murder of two teenage girls here — is scheduled for Aug. 5.
The decision by Gov. Rick Perry to allow the executions is the latest twist in a long-running battle between Mexico, which has no death penalty, and the United States over the fate of 51 Mexicans facing capital punishment in several states, including 14 in Texas. On Wednesday, the International Court of Justice at The Hague ordered a review of five of the Texas cases after Mexico complained that the convicts, all men, had not been allowed a chance to talk to a Mexican consul after their arrests, as required under the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
But that argument holds little sway in Texas, a place with a long history of upholding the death penalty and of telling other governments to mind their own business.
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Mr. Medellín [was] one of six young men that a jury found had raped and strangled Elizabeth Peña, 16, and Jennifer Ertman, 15, in a park one night.
Mr. Medellín was 18 at the time and had lived most of his life in Texas; he signed a confession in English.
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For relatives of the murdered girls, questions about international relations seem irrelevant.
“This has nothing to do with the World Court; it has nothing to do with the U.N.,” said Jennifer’s father, Randy Ertman. “This has everything to do with what Mexico wants, not what Texas wants. The people of Texas want the death penalty.”
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I agree.That's *exactly* what Texas is guilty of.Now what is a fitting punishment for Mexico to impose? I know....a complete boycott of the state by Mexican citizens.No visits (short or long)....the withholding of all Mexican labor in the state....
That'll teach Perry a lesson!
BRAVO TEXAS! I niminate it for the State of the Year - maybe the Century! More power to the Lone Star State and may they never be changed!!!!!
“niminate”
Yu no wut I men!
Way to go Perry .... man does that sound odd.
Don’t murder in Texas!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
If Mexicans want to avoid the death penalty they should 1) stay away from Texas, or, 2), if they feel they must go there to escape their Third World Hell Hole ,refrain from murder. It is just that simple.
I seem to remember (but am probably wrong), that Texas is the only state that teaches its own history in junior high. We have Texas History (7th grade), and then US History in 8th grade. We get into World History in high school, but the foundation, and beginnings, is Texas History.
/I may be totally wrong on that, but I can promise you that MOST Texans are very proud to be from Texas.
AUSTIN PERRY had been released early from a 30yr Sentence:
Prior Occupation: Laborer Prior Prison Record
#292744, received on 6/7/1979 on a 30 YEAR SENTENCE from Dallas County for 2 counts of aggravated rape, 1 count of attempted aggravated rape, and 1 count of aggravated robbery; RELEASED on mandatory supervision on 7/24/1991.
Summary of incident
On 8/19/1992, Austin went to the Harris County home of the victim (a 9 year old white male), looking for the victim’s older brother. The victim got in the car with Austin and left, presumably to look for the older brother. The skeletal remains of the victim were found on 4/23/1993 in a landfill located in Harris County.
Co-defendants None
Race and Gender of Victim White male
June 24, 2008
>Let me tell you: When the United States has long ceased to exist as society governed by the people, I believe that Texas will stand tall as one of the last bastions of freedom in the Western World.<
Are you aware of the percentage of Hispanics in Texas today? It’s right close to 50%! That’s right, Amigo. Time to learn Spanish is coming sooner than you think.
Oh this is sad.....outrageous!
Three cheers for Texas!
There are few sights more enjoyable than seeing a Texan, annoyed into mule stubbornness, telling the individual pestering him what he can do with it. The Texan might do it with a big grin or a hard scowl, with wit or a sharp tongue, but the pesterer might as well go around, because there is no way in heck he is going through as long as that Texan is standing there.
“ncidentally, this is another extremely important reason why there should never be a national popular vote for president. Each state is an independent entity.”
And an important reason why a state like NH shouldn’t be allowed to pick the candidate.
Agreed. What would be done is best left unsaid at this point.
If those numbers are correct, that's 21,900 Americans murdered since Sept. 11, 2001.
I assume the number killed by illegals in traffic accidents is similar.
And I should have sympathy for these pieces of s**t.
Actually its closer to 30,000 Americans murdered since Sept. 11, 2001.
I think the primary process is broken, but that’s a party thing. It isn’t in the constitution anyplace.
Any method for choosing candidates for president is going to cause problems someplace.
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