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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Not sure why it’s the Brazos and not the Trinity or Pecos (although the Pecos headwaters in New Mexico), but whatever. And since we’re ‘dunkin’ maybe we could bring donuts along...
..The original colonial 'capital' of Texas was San Felipe de Austin in Austin County on the Brazos...(not to be confused with present day Austin in Travis County)
..the first skirmish against Mexican authority was on the Brazos...
..there's quite a bit of history on the Brazos.
Texans are proud of the Brazos.
(and I prefer krispy Kremes :)
He was an illegal, I'll bet they are too....
But then, I don't want to slight San Jacinto, San Antonio or Goliad, either. But for 'dunkin' purposes I agree with the Brazos...
I wouldn’t think of slighting any of those fine Texas cities :)
You must have had help coming up with that clever retort.
‘fraid not. You make it so easy!
Johnny Sutton probably gave them a pass
Whereas you manage to prove that even a dimwit can recycle tired jokes.
Bye-bye, Little One.
GFY weirdo.
If you possessed maturity you wouldn’t be prolonging your little pissing contest. Res ipsa loquitur.
So, little woman, get your last word in and we'll call it a wrap! Okay?
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