Hopefully, the actual Vienna Convention does not conflict with the Supreme Court decision.
Fox News is reporting that the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has asked Gov. Rick Perry to commute the death sentence to life in prison for Humberto Leal Garcia.
Senator Patrick Leahy and the U.N. never pass up or let a crisis go to waste.
The interesting twist and background is that the convicted murderer's lawyers say this should be allowed because in 2005 President George W. Bush agreed with the international court ruling that said 50 other inmates should get new hearings on their consular rights. But the U.S. Supreme Court in their wisdom overruled him and blunted the international court decision. The 5th CC of Appeals cited that SC decision to deny one of his appeals in 2009.
Adria Sauceda, the 16 year old girl that Humberto Leal Garcia, Jr brutally raped, mutilated and murdered never got all this justice.
Is arlen sphincter co-counseling ?
Give him a quarter to call the Mexican Consulate and invite them to his execution.
Trying indeed! But poorly. Not only can the Governor NOT do any such thing without a recommendation from the parole board, Perry, regardless of how much he's bashed on FR as a non-conservative, will very likely issue a statement that will tell the UN to go to hell.
Remember this one?
Gov Goodhair can't. A decision by a board is required before the Gov can sign off on it.
/johnny
Hmmm. He’s an illegal. Broke the law just by coming over here. Convicted of killing someone on American territory. That gives him the same rights as a foreign spy—none. Skip the injection. Just shoot him. Today.
The UN can go pound sand.
Not if wants to keep his job.....
When he was arrested, wouldn’t he have had the right to contact someone, whether an attorney or the Mexican consulate or a family member or whatever? And if it were someone else, certainly they could have contacted the consulate for him. Was it that as a foreigner he was expressly supposed to have been told that he had the right to contact his consulate?
Either way, it sounds like the Supreme Court settled this issue—and that should be the end of it.
Stay out of Texas, UN
FUUN
First, liberals want illegal aliens to have the same rights that American citizens have: College tuition, can't be deported, bring their entire extended families over with them, etc. They wish to make it so that nobody can legally distinguish an illegal alien from an undocumented citizen.
But when they're caught red-handed at the scene of a bloody murder, they're extra-special citizens who get to contact their home country's consulate. They get all sorts of special protections.
Sorry, they can't have it both ways.
Now we can't execute him because doing so would put American troops at risk of the same thing if they're captured? As if not executing him will win our Apache pilots a 'Get Out of Jihad Free' card if their helicopters are shot down and they're captured by the Taliban? Oh, sure.
You know that Humberto Leal Garcia is super extra triple guilty when that annoying nun Sister Jean Whatshername shows up in his prison cell and insists that he's got brain damage, ate paint chips and drank Mercury from broken thermometers as a kid, was constantly beaten by his father, continually raped by a Catholic priest, didn't understand the charges against him because he's a borderline retard, and after all that couldn't possibly have been the violent murderer he's accused of being because he's such a loveable fluffy teddy bear who wouldn't hurt a fly.
That broad ought to stop her little anti death penalty protests. She only makes condemned prisoners look guiltier.
I doubt much will come of this effort........
http://familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9714/pub_detail.asp
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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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enough is enough
ugh
Under
Government
Harassment
It didn’t work with Bush and it will not work with Perry..
Since this is a case where Perry cannot have the legislature do his dirty work (like Sanctuary Cities), Governor Perry will have to let this man die, if he’s still interested in running for President.
The action is a question of semantics. The UN is not intervening, it has no power to intervene.
The UN is meddling in Texas.
Hopefully, the actual Vienna Convention does not conflict with the Supreme Court decision.