Medellin Executed For Rape, Murder of Houston Teens

Houston Chronicle ^ | 5 August 2008 | ALLAN TURNER and ROSANNA RUIZ

[Lurker]

Medellin Execute For Rape, Murder of Houston Teens

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[Verbosus]

Quote:
You must be born here to be a Texan.

Well, I was born there - but I must disagree.
If you are there legally, all you have to do is get 'dunked' in the Brazos River to make your Texas citizenship official.

[Vaquero]

To bad he couldn’t have been given to the victims family for some real retribution first. Death of a thousand cuts is too easy for him.

[wolfcreek]

They were showing what were suppose to be protesters standing in the rain last evening.

“You should’ve gotten ‘ol Sparky” and “Hell's a waitin” were the only signs I saw.

Screw Mexico and damn Jose to HELL!

[XR7]

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

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THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
Bush backs Mexico, rapist-murderer
International court seeks to block death penalty in Texas

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Posted: October 08, 2007
11:28 am Eastern

Jose Medellin

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case Wednesday in which the Bush administration will seek to overturn the death penalty of a convicted rapist-murderer at the behest of the International Court of Justice.

Jose Medellin confessed in 1993 to participating in the rape and murder of two Houston teenagers. Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena were sodomized and strangled with their shoe laces. Medellin bragged about keeping one girl's Mickey Mouse watch as a souvenir of the crime.

Medellin and four others were convicted of capital murder and sent to Texas' death row. A juvenile court sentenced Medellin's younger brother, who was 14 at the time, to 40 years in prison.

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

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THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
Outrage erupts over Bush demands in murder case
Appeal of torture-slaying conviction could set U.N. law over U.S.

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Posted: October 10, 2007
1:00 am Eastern

What the U.S. government wants in the Medellin murder case, now being heard before the U.S. Supreme Court, is "bizarrely grotesque," according to the chief counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund.

And the warning from ADF Chief Counsel Benjamin Bull notes that the case, being pursued by President Bush through the Department of Justice, could result in U.S. laws being subjugated to U.N. resolutions and rules to the point that local police officers will have to spend more time studying international law than catching criminals.

"The notion that an international body can Mirandize the right of an illegal immigrant to call a consulate, so that if the local police trip up and innocently don't to it, a convicted rapist-torturer-murderer goes free, goes beyond bizarrely grotesque," Bull, whose organization has filed an amicus brief on the issue, told WND.

Jose Medellin

At issue is the death penalty verdict for Jose Medellin, who confessed in 1993 to participating in the rape and murder of two Houston teenagers. Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena were sodomized and strangled with their shoe laces. Medellin then boasted of keeping one girl's Mickey Mouse watch as a souvenir of the crime.

The Bush administration is before the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to overturn the death penalty, at the behest of the International Court of Justice, a division of the United Nations.

Medellin and four others were convicted of capital murder and sent to Texas' death row. A juvenile court sentenced Medellin's younger brother, who was 14 at the time, to 40 years in prison.

[XR7]

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED?

The Bush administration is before the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to overturn the death penalty, at the behest of the International Court of Justice, a division of the United Nations.

Can't blame the ACLU for this one folks.

[writmeister]

There was no need to remand this case to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals because they had already heard the most recent version of these claims and rejected them in a decision issued last week.

[bert]

.....Sad but good news....

Sad? It is time for joy. A terrible human who committed unspeakable crimes is finallly dead and gone.

[MortMan]

May God grant the families of the teens he raped and murdered peace and forgiveness. (Forgiveness so that the cancer of long-term anger doesn’t eat away at them.)

Medellin has finally paid his debt, at least in this world.

[sam_paine]

Bush said [as POTUS], “The United States will discharge its international obligations ... by having state courts give effect to the decision

Aliens' Rights Are Issue in Texas Death Row Case
By RICK LYMAN Published: December 8, 1998

''There is a golden rule,'' Mr. Warren said. ''If the United States expects the rights of its citizens to be protected abroad, it must provide those rights to foreigners in the United States. This is not rocket science. And the U.S. State Department is painfully aware, I think, that they are on very thin ice.''

Governor Bush [in 1998] said he would make no final decision on Mr. Faulder's execution until a recommendation from the Texas Board of Paroles and Pardons and saw no need for giving the board more time the issue. ''In general, I will uphold the laws of the State of Texas, regardless of the nationality of the person involved,'' he said. ''People can't just come into our state and cold-blood murder somebody. That's unacceptable behavior.''

Governor Bush, a strong supporter of the death penalty, has generally acceded to the recommendations of his parole board, which has not shown itself inclined toward clemency in death penalty cases.

Seems to me, like in a Republic...Bush did the right thing for the state of Texas when he was governor, and he upheld the laws/treaties of the US as POTUS.

The Texas Supreme Court overruled Bush initially in the 1998 case, but he stuck with it and upheld the laws of the State as Governor and Faulder was executed 6 mos later.

Both criminals are dead with due State and Federal process....what do you want...county lynchings instead?

[ikka]

Sad? It is time for joy. A terrible human who committed unspeakable crimes is finallly dead and gone.

It is right that he is now gone from this earth. But it is sad because there was no reason for him to commit the crimes in the first place.

[BellStar]

I wish the story of how these girls suffered before that vermin killed them could have been in the story.

[bcsco]

Time for my Bourbon and a fine cigar.

I made a promise to myself earlier yesterday to have two fingers of Woodford Reserve in celebration of Texas justice. It came too late for me to celebrate last night. But tonight...

[BellStar]

The state of Texas is over run by murderous illegal aliens. We are under siege.

[bcsco]

I have a Montecristo (not from Cuba) in the humidor but it’s waiting for my 65th birthday next month. I’ll settle for my Woodford Reserve tonight...

[hocndoc]

We cannot, must not allow anything less than justice - equal, unbiased justice - for everyone who lives in the US, and especially the State of Texas.

I pray that the murderer found some sort of peace with God before he died and am encouraged that he told the families of his victims that he was sorry.

I hate the death penalty. But I hate murder and torture of little girls more.

[hocndoc]

Amen to your thanks and to your blessing, with an added prayer for His peace for all the families.

I shudder to think that 4 of the SC justices dissented.

Justice is blind to nation of birth in Texas. Here, no one is more equal than another.

[hocndoc]

Give the 5 honorable, non-discriminating SC justices credit for telling the world that they’d already decided this case, in the past. They repeated that both State and Federal Courts had already decided, in fact.

Hopefully, this one will settle the other 50.

[Jeff Head]

Agreed. With this decision, it is likely that the other fifty should get the same. That will not stop the libs, bleeding hearts, and one worlders from trying eaach and evey time though.

Any state that does not follw Texas' path is likely to cave. In the State of Texas however, it is likely that any of those 50 will meet their just end.

[truthkeeper]

Did you hear about YaYa123 leaving us? A major loss.

Oh no! When?

[nina0113]

But all Christians, anyway, are obliged to hope that he might be saved somehow.

"Lord, make me pure, but not yet."