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US set to execute Mexican in defiance of international court
AFP on Yahoo ^ | 8/5/08 | AFP

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; deathrow; defiance; execute; icj; medellin; mexican
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To: NormsRevenge

Maybe the UN needs to send troops to Texas? he he he


81 posted on 08/05/2008 1:23:27 PM PDT by rrrod
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To: NormsRevenge

While we’re at it, what should be done with United Nations child molesters and child pornographers? Google on “United Nations” and “sex for food,” and you will see what I mean.


82 posted on 08/05/2008 1:24:26 PM PDT by Winged Hussar (http://moveonpleasemoveon.blogspot.com/)
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To: NormsRevenge

And people say there’s no good news.


83 posted on 08/05/2008 1:24:50 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("[Obama acts] as if the very idea of permanent truth is passe, a form of bad taste"-Shelby Steele)
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To: NormsRevenge

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/

Looks like your time is running out, Jose.


84 posted on 08/05/2008 1:24:56 PM PDT by Red6 (Come and take it.)
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To: WayneS

The Republic of Texas is set to execute Mexican in defiance of international court.
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No they are not....

You cant “defy” an institution that has no controlling power over you...


85 posted on 08/05/2008 1:25:30 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana
What day and time is he due to go to his reward...locally ??????

Today, 1700 hrs/5:00 p.m. CST according to an up-thread post.

86 posted on 08/05/2008 1:25:34 PM PDT by bcsco (Obama: SPINciple in chief!)
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To: indcons

“Pres. bush tried to stop this execution and sided with the ICJ - he was overruled by the SCOTUS.”

I already know that!

The RELEVENT part of your comment is: “Pres. Bush tried to stop this execution and sided with the ICJ”

That makes him a traitor to the United States of America.


87 posted on 08/05/2008 1:25:42 PM PDT by WayneS (What the hell is wrong with these people?)
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To: tbpiper

To borrow a line from Joe Stalin—how many division does the International Court of Justice have?


88 posted on 08/05/2008 1:26:08 PM PDT by Busywhiskers (Strength and Honor)
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To: Orange1998

You are kidding, right? I thought his abject failure to give a rat’s ass about Ramos and Compean would have given you clear indication about his true feelings.


89 posted on 08/05/2008 1:26:43 PM PDT by guido911 (Islamic terrorists are members of the "ROP", the "religion of pu*&ies")
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To: Tennessee Nana

You are correct, of course.

So the headline SHOULD have read: “The Republic of Texas is set to execute Mexican”

There!

Thank you for your assistance.


90 posted on 08/05/2008 1:27:23 PM PDT by WayneS (What the hell is wrong with these people?)
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To: bcsco

6 PM, actually.


91 posted on 08/05/2008 1:27:28 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (~ ~ FREE LAZAMATAZ! ~ ~ [Shipping and handling charges may apply.])
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To: NormsRevenge

6 PM Eastern ???

Mark Levin will be all over this .....


92 posted on 08/05/2008 1:29:05 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: WayneS

:)


93 posted on 08/05/2008 1:29:36 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Slings and Arrows
6 PM, actually.

I just discovered that from that Greenwich Time link. The up-thread post I was refering to said 1700 CST/2300 GMT. Not knowing the difference in hours I went with the first...

94 posted on 08/05/2008 1:30:30 PM PDT by bcsco (Obama: SPINciple in chief!)
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To: bcsco

No worries; just trying to help.


95 posted on 08/05/2008 1:30:57 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (~ ~ FREE LAZAMATAZ! ~ ~ [Shipping and handling charges may apply.])
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To: Slings and Arrows
just trying to help.

And I appreciate that :)

96 posted on 08/05/2008 1:31:41 PM PDT by bcsco (Obama: SPINciple in chief!)
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To: NormsRevenge
God bless Texas.

Rest in peace, Jenni and Elizabeth.


The gang continued drinking and 'shooting the breeze' for some time and then decided to leave. Two brothers who had been with them but testified that they were not in the gang left first and passed Jenny and Elizabeth, who were unknowingly walking towards their deaths. When Peter Cantu saw Jenny and Elizabeth, he thought it was a man and a woman and told the other gang members that he wanted to jump him and beat him up. He was frustrated that he had been the one who was unable to fight Raul.

The gang members ran and grabbed Elizabeth and pulled her down the incline, off of the tracks. Testimony showed that Jenny had gotten free and could have run away but returned to Elizabeth when she cried out for Jenny to help her.

For the next hour or so, these beautiful, innocent young girls were subjected to the most brutal gang rapes that most of the investigating officers had ever encountered. The confessions of the gang members that were used at trial indicated that there was never less than 2 men on each of the girls at any one time and that the girls were repeatedly raped orally, anally and vaginally for the entire hour. One of the gang members later said during the brag session that by the time he got to one of the girls, "she was loose and sloppy." One of the boys boasted of having 'virgin blood' on him.

The 14-year-old juvenile later testified that he had gone back and forth between his brother and Peter Cantu since they were the only ones there that he really knew and kept urging them to leave. He said he was told repeatedly by Peter Cantu to "get some". He raped Jennifer and was later sentenced to 40 years for aggravated sexual assault, which was the maximum sentence for a juvenile.

When the rapes finally ended, the horror was not over. The gang members took Jenny and Elizabeth from the clearing into a wooded area, leaving the juvenile behind, saying he was "too little to watch". Jenny was strangled with the belt of Sean O'Brien, with two murderers pulling, one on each side, until the belt broke. Part of the belt was left at the murder scene, the rest was found in O'Brien's home. After the belt broke, the killers used her own shoelaces to finish their job. Medellin later complained that "the bitch wouldn't die" and that it would have been "easier with a gun." Elizabeth was also strangled with her shoelaces, after crying and begging the gang members not to kill them; bargaining, offering to give them her phone number so they could get together again.

97 posted on 08/05/2008 1:32:13 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Public policy should never become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. -- Ike Eisenhower)
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To: WayneS

“That makes him a traitor to the United States of America.”

Whoa - I don’t agree with your characterization.


98 posted on 08/05/2008 1:33:49 PM PDT by indcons (People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. - A. J. Liebling)
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To: NormsRevenge

” . . . he (Ban mi-koon) was “confident” his demands would be accepted.”

`We are confident that you can go pound sand.’ State of Texas


99 posted on 08/05/2008 1:34:28 PM PDT by tumblindice (conservative McCain supporter=oxymoron)
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To: NormsRevenge

Last time I checked, we were a sovereign nation that didn’t have to answer to outside government entities.

Look, there’s nothing wrong with the World Court that a 500 pound bomb could fix, so don’t take it that I think they’re totally worthless.

We need training targets.


100 posted on 08/05/2008 1:36:56 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I'm a non Soros non lefitst supporting maverick Gang of 1, who won't be voting for McCain.)
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