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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Hey Navi - JUST STFU and clean my house and wash my car. And, uh, you can kiss my lily white Irish ass you third world untouchable.
Navi, you can stuff your law, the U.N. is irrelevant.
“Fairness?” He had SEVENTEEN YEARS of appeals. That’s more years of appeals than his victim had of life!
That’s right! I don’t agree with the death penalty but I do believe in State’s rights. State’s rights can not be trumped by other countries. That’s the issue here, the President can not dictate to States how to run there business nor can other countries. Texas has been running its prison system for well, well over 160 years. We don’t need Obama’s permission let alone his voice in our business. Don’t start with us, you will not win over on this Republic of Texas.
DEFUND UNaccountable bureaucracies (socialists) foreign and domestic.
This is what Obama is wishing for...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43685778/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/43698027
Governor Rick Perry for president 2012...
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