[Dawnsblood]

Go Texas!

[Jeff Head]

Judge Roy Bean, "some folks need killin'"

Medellin should have been dead long ago.

[DoughtyOne]

But, the state added, if there are other foreign nationals in Texas who have not had the same review of their treaty-based claims, the state will join in to make sure that it happens.

This is very troubling to me. It seems to acknowledge a reasoned expectation that Texas must bow to international pressure, specifically the World Court.

If Texas is acknowledging that duty in other cases, it might prejudice the court against this execution until it meets the standard Texas intends to implement in future cases.

Big mistake IMO. Let's hope I'm wrong.

The SCOTUS held firm before. If this execution does get delayed, it will be on these merits, again IMO.

[Doc Savage]

Need an executioner? I’m available!

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Medellin’s lawyers have asked Justice Antonin Scalia, as Circuit Justice for the area that includes Texas, to postpone his execution until the Supreme Court can act on new appeals by his counsel.

I somehow think that they're probably asking the wrong guy on this...!

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Maybe it’s just me, but if some U.S. citizen went to Mexico and raped and murdered a couple of women, I’d hardly be protesting his impending execution.

[montag813]

All this legal wrangling, millions of dollars spent, international brouhaha, just to put down a rabid animal.

[E. Cartman]

Texas asks no delay of execution

At last, some good news.

[anymouse]

Even with a hurricane bearing down on us and threatened power outages, we’ll keep the lights on in Huntsville for this. :)

[dfwgator]

"Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty -- mine's putting in an express lane."