U.S. broke international law by executing Mexican national, says U.N.

http://edition.cnn.com ^ | 07/08/2011 | CNN Wire Staff

[massmike]

The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights says the United States breached international law by executing a Mexican national.

Navi Pillay, in a statement Friday, said he deeply regrets the execution of Humberto Leal Garcia, after a last-minute 5-4 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court denied him a stay of execution Thursday night.

"The execution of Mr. Leal Garcia places the U.S. in breach of international law," said Pillay, who is currently on official mission in Mexico. "What the state of Texas has done in this case is imputable in law to the U.S. and engages the United States' international responsibility."

Garcia was convicted of raping and killing a 16-year-old girl and was executed by lethal injection Thursday evening in Texas.

[Ohioan]

Sandra Babcock, lead appellate attorney, said, "It is shameful that Mr. Leal will pay the price for our inaction. The need for congressional action to restore our reputation and protect our citizens is more urgent than ever."

As a lawyer, let me apologize for this stupid comment by a lawyer in another State. Mr. Leal did not pay a price for the inaction of Congress, in a matter that it is somewhat questionable whether Congress should even have a role. Mr. Leal received justice for an outrageous crime against an innocent young woman. Miss Babcock really should know better than to engage in this sort of senseless rant.

As for protecting "our citizens?" How would sparing an alien murderer protect our citizens? Miss Babcock engaging in a tactic that is calculated to embarrass our citizens, not protect them. (This will be picked up by our enemies in other lands, and that may be the intention.)

William Flax

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“They need to give our 24% funding back and get out.”

ABDO-LUTELY!

[Revel]

No where in the constitution does it give the UN or international law priority over US law. Does international law ever violate US law. That is the question.

[max americana]

Send the blue helmets on American shores and we’ll have some entertainment..

[longtermmemmory]

so like its past actions, the UN defends the convicted rapists and murders.

so Obama stood up for the convicted rapist of a child but did not say one word for her family or the lost life of a child.

A jury trial in the US is a fact of life unheard of in other nations. (japan for example, has no juries)

[CaptSkip]

FUBO! & FUUN!

(I know how to say foo-boh...not so sure on foo-oon...or maybe it should be pronounced foo-you-in?

Or Fuh-uhn like a pause in the middle of saying the word f-u-n.

Or maybe I'm over thinking it, and just a straight and emphatic F*CK YOU YOU GODLESS AND EVIL UN is best.)

[centermass_socrates]

In the “spirit of understanding” I think Gov. Perry should invite B.O. over to have a beer and then let B.O. know how stupidly B.O. had acted.
Of course this could technically be defined as a “shovel ready project”.

[SaraJohnson]

You got a problem with that, U.N.? Come and talk to us Texans about it.

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If the globalists get their way, that is exactly what will happen in the future. They will use our own “international peace keeper” military to take us out.

[ForGod'sSake]

[GeronL]

Oh please. What a bunch of crap

[La Enchiladita]

Hey!! If illegals can break our immigration laws, violating our sovereignty, then we can certainly break “international law,” which doesn’t mean jack anyway.

[Raycpa]

I guess this means Governor Perry has no chance of getting that Nobel Peace Prize?

[Windflier]

[stephenjohnbanker]

I think the U.N. building would make a nice condo conversion.

[Tzimisce]

Iran is building nukes. It plans to use those nukes against its neighbors. Isn’t that against the law?

The UN can go to hell.

[New Jersey Realist]

Has the arrest order been issued yet?

[Republican Wildcat]

"The execution of Mr. Leal Garcia places the U.S. in breach of international law," said Pillay, who is currently on official mission in Mexico. "What the state of Texas has done in this case is imputable in law to the U.S. and engages the United States' international responsibility."

Wrong. The "United States" did not do this...it was Texas. Two separate and distinct entities and bodies of governing law.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

To be fair, Bush did the same thing in 2008. However, back then there was no Supreme Court case saying it is the responsibility of Congress to pass a law implementing the treaty, and that the conviction stands. Bush was operating in new legal territory, and had to do his job with the responsibility for foreign relations.

"Responsibility for foreign relations" overrides responsibility to the families of murdered US citizens? You could make the same excuse for Obama, but I don't buy it. We need a POTUS who represents the USA rather than foreign rapists/murderers.

However, at least Bush did not criticize the SCOTUS at the state of the union address.

Since then Congress had years to pass a law implementing the treaty, and Obama had years to push for one. Obama’s people knew about that precedent, yet they still tried to rehash the same argument.
Personally, I think the liberals held it up because it would require some kind of the dreaded profiling in order to determine whether someone needed to know these rights. To allow it would show their hypocrisy.

That makes sense, but also, just imagine political ads showing congresscrooks backing such a law on the side of Sudan and Libya (UN "Human Rights Commission").

[Grunthor]

“The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights says the United States breached international law by executing a Mexican national.”

Dearest U.N.

Kindly bend over and kiss the fattest piece of my @ss.

Regards,

Grunthor

[Grunthor]

“Come and talk to us Texans about it.”

I believe THAT perticular discussion would make the recent Netanyahu lecture to Obama look like a picnic date in the park. I’d love to see it happen.

;)