Posted on 08/05/2008 12:41:04 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon issued a last-minute appeal to the United States Tuesday to halt the scheduled execution of a Mexican national sentenced to death for murder in defiance of an International Court of Justice (ICJ) order.
Jose Ernesto Medellin, 33, was due to be executed by lethal injection at 2300 GMT in the state of Texas. He was convicted of the 1993 rape and murder of two teenagers and is one 51 Mexican nationals on death row in the United States.
Less than 12 hours before Medellin's planned execution, Ban called on the US government to abide by an ICJ ruling calling for the executions of all Mexican nationals to be suspended.
"All decisions and orders of the International Court of Justice must be respected by states," Ban warned on local television in Mexico City where he was attending a world AIDS conference.
"The United States should take every step to make sure the execution does not take place," he added, saying he had taken all the necessary steps to delay Medellin's execution, detailed in a letter to the United States and that he was "confident" his demands would be accepted.
Mexico has complained that its nationals on death row were not informed of their right to consular access and assistance during trial, a right under the Vienna Convention.
Medellin's family anxiously waited at the prison near Houston where the 33-year-old is due to be executed at 2300 GMT by lethal injection.
Medellin's request for a reprieve was unanimously turned down on Monday by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and his fate lies in the hands of Texas Governor Rick Perry.
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WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US State Department insisted Tuesday that it did all it could to stop the execution of a Mexican man by the state of Texas but could ...
maybe I’ll take a nap
I’ll bet the signers of the Constitution had never heard of a crime this heinous.
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News on Ft Worth radio...
Still on hold...
He will not skate. Whether it be tonight, or in the days to come, this POS is soon to be facing the judgement.
I will check later too.
..will have a cup of tea and keep waiting
I’m taking a timeout for dinner - but I want to see this through.
This scum needs to die for what he did.
I hope if the USSC says Texas can’t execute because a foreign court says so that Texas tells the scumbag court to go to Hell and gets him dead ASAP. That’ll set one Hell of a situation whereby a State tells the feds that their rules are unconstitutional, meaning the people regain the right to say what they will do and not 5 royalty judges.
Can someone install a countdown clock?
Actually both Justice Stevens and Kennedy sided with the 4 conservative justices in this case in March 08.
The tension is building. BTW, pour me a cup.
that would be the Secretary of State...Condoleeza Rice
Jose will remember this night for the rest of his life...
I knew there was a reason I liked you! LOL!
Glad to see ya here big D. I wish I knew how to post one.
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