Posted on 07/31/2008 6:59:34 PM PDT by instantgratification
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.
He can choose the new “lemon fresh” scented pancuronium bromide.
I say bring back hanging, just for this sad sack o’ sh*t.
It’s time we told them (World Court, UN, etc) to “go pound salt”!
Allright Texas!!! You stand strong.
On with the execution. Old Europe is wrong once again.
Let it be soon...
Republic of Texas trumps international law.
Hanging is too good for him.Tie him to a stake and let me set my dogs on him.
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.
World Court opinions should have zero standing in the United States (or any allegedly sovereign country for that matter)
Execute him.
Screw the World Court.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If this court does not want them to die, these perverts can live with them and their daughters.
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