Posted on 07/01/2011 1:11:26 PM PDT by KeyLargo
June 10, 2011 Mexicans Blast Execution of Criminal Alien Murderer In Texas
Jim Kouri, CPP
Mexicans on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border are protesting the upcoming execution of a criminal alien rapist and murderer scheduled for July 7, 2011, in Texas.
Because the convicted killer is a Mexican citizen, the Calderon government is questioning the procedures that were utilized in sentencing the death row prisoner, Humberto Leal Garcia. The Mexican ambassador to the United States requested this week that Texas Governor Rick Perry delay the execution until a review is completed of the sentencing procedures.
The 38-year old Garcia faces the death penalty for the rape and murder of 16-year-old Adra Sauceda in San Antonio, Texas on May 21, 1994 . Besides Garcia, 50 other Mexicans are sitting on death rows in the U.S.
In a 2004 ruling, the International Court of Justice determined that the United States was not granting death penalty convicts from Mexico their right to legal assistance by their own country.
Mexico's legal system prohibits capital punishment and a treaty with the United States forbids Mexican authorities from extraditing criminals to the United States who face the death penalty if tried in states that utilize some method of execution.
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U.N. Official Calls for Texas Governor to Block Execution of Mexican National
Published July 01, 2011 | FoxNews.com
Mexico doesn’t need to have a death penalty, they should slaughter their citizens right out on the open streets.
Screw Mexico and the UN.
Ride the lightning Garcia.
Meant to say, “they JUST slaughter their citizens right out on the open streets.”
The Mexicans are right. Let’s BLAST!
Send him to Juarez wearing a FBI jacket. That should do the trick.
Gov Goodhair can't stop the execution. That would require a board to do that, with Perry concurring. What? Mexico thinks that Texas trusts their politicians with power? Not hardly.
/johnny
We need to do much more of this instead of putting them on a bus back to Mexico...much more.
I’ve reexamined my opposition to a speedy path to citizenship. I think anyone on death row deserves immediate US citizenship. :)
U.S. Supreme Court Urged to Stop Execution of Mexican, Citing Obama-Backed Legislation
Published June 30, 2011
I wonder when Americans are going to get tired of Mexicans killing our people and meddling in our internal affairs.
Sometimes I think we are too civilized.
In most places in the world, the Mexican embassy and the consulates would have been burned to the ground, and the ambassador would have been expelled.
I don’t know why we allow the Mexicans to constantly spit in our faces.
Our forefathers would have marched soldiers into Mexico City and put a stop to this nonsense, as well as to the illegal invasion and drug trafficking.
Assuming that Texas did this, for the reasons cited, it would effectively EDND capital punishment in Texas, because any US citizen sentenced to death could now claim uneven application of the death penalty..
I believe that, in order to end this irritant to our relations with all foreign countries, we should execute all foreign death row inmates immediately. That way there will only be one loud squawk soon forgotten. Otherwise, we will have to hear all of this whining every few months for years to come.
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In a 2004 ruling, the International Court of Justice determined that the United States was not granting death penalty convicts from Mexico their right to legal assistance by their own country.
Mexico’s legal system prohibits capital punishment and a treaty with the United States forbids Mexican authorities from extraditing criminals to the United States who face the death penalty if tried in states that utilize some method of execution.
However, a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court decision stipulates that the legal support of a foreign government — or governments — is not required in deciding whether to execute a foreign national convicted of a capital offense. The 6-3 majority ruled that state court judges are given the discretion to decide how a sentence is carried out.
That high court decision cleared the way for Texas to execute Mexican citizen Jose Ernesto Medellin by lethal injection in 2008.
However, the U.S. Congress is trying to resolve the conflicting court decisions with legislation. The pending congressional bill — supported by the liberal-left — would require states to obey requirements of international treaties, such as the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
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