Posted on 08/05/2008 9:29:57 PM PDT by ThinkingBuddha
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Mexican national Jose Ernesto Medellin has been executed by lethal injection, according to Texas prison officials.
Jose Ernesto Medellin was put to death for his part in the gang rape and murder of two Texas girls.
Corrections spokeswoman Michelle Lyons said Medellin died at 9:57 CT.
The U.S. Supreme Court denied the last-ditch appeal of a Mexican national on Texas' death row late Tuesday, paving the way for him to be executed for a pair of brutal slayings, state corrections officials said.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Michelle Lyons said about 9:15 p.m. that the court had turned down the appeal of Jose Ernesto Medellin.
Medellin's capital appeal was an unusual one that pitted President Bush against his home state in a dispute over federal authority, local sovereignty and foreign treaties.
At issue is an international court's ruling that Medellin and about 50 other Mexicans have been illegally denied access to their home country's consul. Allowing travelers such access when they are arrested abroad is common practice.
At about 7 p.m., an hour after the execution could have taken place, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Corrections said the execution was in a "holding pattern."
The high court in March ruled for Texas, allowing the execution to proceed, but Medellin's lawyers filed a flurry of emergency appeals in state and federal courts, requesting a stay. They argued that Congress and the Texas Legislature should be given a chance to pass legislation that would give their client a new hearing before punishment is carried out.....
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/05/scotus.execution/index.html
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BTTT
Finally. I’ll have a beer in Governor Perry’s honor. Not something I’ve had occasion to do before, frankly. But he stood firm.
The world is a safer place.
They should deport him now...
Excellent. Now ship his carcass back to Mexico, care of the international court.
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It is simple really, if you don’t want to be executed, don’t kill people. So simple a caveman could figure it out.
Not until a dozen paragraphs into the story are the names and ages of the victims stated. We know this convict’s middle name before we hear more about the “two girls” whom he raped and murdered. That tells you where CNN’s heart is.
Post of the freaking year!
"In Texas if you kill someone, we will kill you back. That's our policy." Ron White
L
REMEMBER THE ALAMO!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Huntsville. El estado de Texas ejecutó esta noche al reo mexicano José Ernesto Medellín, en desafío a la orden de la Corte Internacional de Justicia (CIJ) y de apelaciones de la administración del presidente George W. Bush.
Medellín, cuyas últimas palabras fueron para pedir perdón a los familiares de las dos jóvenes en cuyo asesinato participó, fue declarado muerto a las 21:57 horas, tiempo local (03:57 GMT del jueves).
"Espero que esto sea la recapitulación que buscan. Nunca odien a alguien por lo que haga. Nunca alberguen odio", pidió el mexicano.
Enseguida, Medellín se dirigió a su amiga Sandra Crisp y le repitió: "Te amo, te amo".
Tranquilo, el reo mexicano, de 33 años, volteó su rostro hacia el guardia de la prisión de máxima seguridad en esta localidad de Texas y le dijo las que serían sus últimas dos palabras: "Es hora".
La Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos rechazó este martes la última apelación del mexicano, con lo que allanó el camino a su ejecución, a pesar del pedido de la Corte Internacional de Justicia de detenerla.
"La solicitud de detener la ejecución de la sentencia de muerte... es rechazada", dictaminó la Corte Suprema.
Hell, just take him down to the fence and toss him over.
Babelfish’s attempt at translation:
The state of Texas tonight executed to the Mexican criminal Jose Ernesto Medellín, in challenge at your service of the Court the International of Justicia (CIJ) and appeals of the administration of president George W. Bush.
Medellín, whose last words went for asking pardon the relatives of the two young people in whose murder it participated, was declared dead to the 21:57 hours, local time (03: 57 GMT of Thursday).
“I hope that this is the summary that they look for. They never hate to somebody reason why it does. They never lodge odio” , the Mexican asked.
Immediately, Medellín went to its friend Sandra Crisp and it repeated to him: “ I love you, you amo”.
Calm, the Mexican criminal, of 33 years, turned around his face towards the guard of the prison of maximum security in this locality of Texas and he said those to him that would be their last two words: “ He is hora”.
The Supreme Court of the United States rejected east Tuesday the last appeal of Mexican, and so it smoothed the way to his execution, in spite of the order of the Court International of Justice to stop it. “
The request to stop the execution of the death sentence… is rechazada” , it considered the Supreme Court.
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