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Texas Execution Broke International Law, Says U.N. Official
Atlantic Wire ^
| July 8, 2011
| Adam Martin
Posted on 07/09/2011 10:25:38 AM PDT by lbryce
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay accused the United States of breaking international law when Texas executed Mexican citizen Humberto Leal Garcia Jr. Thursday night. The execution sparked controversy after the International Court of Justice in the Hague determined in 2004 that the U.S. had violated the Vienna Convention when officials failed to tell foreign inmates about their right to visit their consular officials. But the U.S. Supreme Court voted yesterday that Texas could go ahead with the execution, even over the objection of President Barack Obama. Pillay said today the execution "raises particular legal concerns" about the fairness of the proceedings against Leal.
Pillay said Perry and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles each failed to exercise consular and fair-trial obligations spelled out under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and an International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights that could have prevented the U.S. from breaching its obligations under international law.
Pillay cited the 2004 international court ruling "saying the U.S. must review and reconsider the cases of 51 Mexican nationals sentenced to death, including Leal's--But, she said, that never happened." Leal had been found guilty and sentenced to death for the 1994 rape and murder of a teenager.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: capitalpunishment; execution; fairness; humbertolealgarcia; internationallaw; leal; murder; navipillay; obama; perry; rickperry; texas; un
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The UN; a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
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posted on
07/09/2011 10:25:44 AM PDT
by
lbryce
To: lbryce
Navi Pillay should have notified Texas of which consulate to notify when this guy was first picked up.
He had his chance.
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posted on
07/09/2011 10:27:13 AM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: lbryce
BS! Get the frakin UN out of the US NOW!!! =.=
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posted on
07/09/2011 10:27:22 AM PDT
by
cranked
To: lbryce
Well, the killer broke Texas law.
So there.
neener neener
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posted on
07/09/2011 10:28:21 AM PDT
by
Principled
(Get the capital back! NRST!)
To: lbryce
Sorry biatch. U.S. law trumps “international law”. We’re a sovereign country. (At least for now).
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posted on
07/09/2011 10:28:42 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(When the going gets tough, the tough check themselves into "rehab".)
To: lbryce
Sounds like somebody’s messin’ with Texas.
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posted on
07/09/2011 10:29:13 AM PDT
by
rogue yam
To: lbryce
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posted on
07/09/2011 10:29:22 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(When the going gets tough, the tough check themselves into "rehab".)
To: lbryce
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posted on
07/09/2011 10:30:01 AM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
(Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
To: lbryce
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posted on
07/09/2011 10:30:16 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(Muslim Brotherhood (renames itself) the Liberty and Justice Party. NOT A JOKE.)
To: lbryce
Correct . The only thing that matters here is, the animal is dead.
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posted on
07/09/2011 10:30:32 AM PDT
by
fantom
(,)
To: lbryce
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posted on
07/09/2011 10:30:39 AM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: lbryce
I think the UN should protest by taking their offices out of the US to somewhere in the mid Congo.
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posted on
07/09/2011 10:31:48 AM PDT
by
Mouton
(Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
To: lbryce
the U.S. Supreme Court voted yesterday that Texas could go ahead with the execution, even over the objection of President Barack Obama.
A little warning shot across Obama's bow from the guys in black?
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posted on
07/09/2011 10:32:14 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: lbryce
Leal had been found guilty and sentenced to death for the 1994 rape and murder of a teenager. Before this miserable POS bashed her head in, he raped her with a "piece of lumber." It was still sticking out of her when they found her body.
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posted on
07/09/2011 10:32:32 AM PDT
by
AAABEST
(Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
To: lbryce
The UN doesn’t have any right to exist under Texas Law and needs to be put out of its misery ASAP.
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posted on
07/09/2011 10:32:58 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: lbryce
Hey, UN, you can kiss my b*tt.
You'd think with all the GLBT celebrations going on at the UN these days you'd think they'd be too busy to embark on any witch hunts.
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posted on
07/09/2011 10:33:07 AM PDT
by
lbryce
(BHO:Satan's Evil Twin)
To: lbryce
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights?
Yea ol Navi Pillay can go spoon a goose. Texas is exempt because we said so, not the USSC. Though it was nice of
them to agree.
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posted on
07/09/2011 10:34:18 AM PDT
by
Slambat
(The right to keep and bear arms. Anything one man can carry, drive or pull.)
To: muawiyah
To: Navi Pillay
FM: State of Texas
Subject: Humberto Garcia execution.
Dear Mr. Pillay, upon further review, we have decided to accede to your request. We have informed Mr. Garcia of our decision but he has refused to respond. In fact, he has been unresponsive for quite some time now. We suspect that he might even be dead. If so, sorry.
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posted on
07/09/2011 10:35:33 AM PDT
by
JPG
(Elect Sarah Palin in '12. America won't get another chance.)
To: lbryce
Isn’t it some other country’s turn to support and subsidize this basket case? Send the bass turds to Geneva or Vienna. We don’t need them here. The UN is corrupt and totally worthless.
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posted on
07/09/2011 10:35:37 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(When the going gets tough, the tough check themselves into "rehab".)
To: lbryce
Then the UN should invade Texas! The fight for the freedom of humanity should begin there. Destroy the UN, then march to Washington.
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posted on
07/09/2011 10:35:57 AM PDT
by
Bryanw92
(We don't need to win elections. We need to win a revolution.)
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