11,400 Mexicans on death row in Texas whose rights an international court say have been denied!!! [the fiction writer of this story padded that number by 11,385]
Texas houses 15 of the more than 50 Mexican national death row inmates listed in an International Court of Justice opinion that determined the United States violated their rights when local law enforcement didn’t inform them of the right to call the Mexican consulate. Those on Texas death row included in the 2004 ruling
All Offenders on Texas Death row
BTW this was a big LIBERAL crocodile tears performance against Rick Perry and Texas to make brownie points with 2012 Democratic Party voters: "U.S. officials asked the Supreme Court to grant a delay to give Congress time to make the death penalty illegal [since 2008] for foreign nationals who were not given access to diplomatic representation after being arrested for capital crimes. The high court ruled in an unsigned majority opinion against the bid for a delay, arguing that Congress had enough time to pass legislation before the execution. "Our task is to rule on what the law is, not what it might eventually be," the majority wrote." source
On FOX, someone said this guy had been in the US since he was two years old.
woot! go RICK!
Dear People’s World;
Tell Mexico to keep it’s murdering rapists home and Texas won’t have to exterminate them. They tend to give rats a bad name.
“In Texas currently, there are reportedly 11,400 citizens of Mexico awaiting execution in state prisons, who have been denied their rights under the Convention”
In Texas we would call that a GOOD START.:)
What a LIE, How could that be allowed to be printed?
In other words asking the Republican congress to retroactively change the law. And if they did, they would be darned and if they didn't they would be darned. So I don't blame the Republicans for not taking it up, but I do blame the Liberal/Progressives for pushing such nonsense.
For US law is not subservient to foreign law. This is why many countries will not extradite murderers to the United States because they have crocodile tears for murderers.
No the Article is pushing for US law to be subservient to foreign laws in order to push socialism a bit faster.
But I'm happy when they won't extradite and keep them in the foreign jails. Then we don't have to pay for it nor the constant lawsuits these folks foist upon the system.
In this recession, I have no compassion for murderers and know the Progressives/Liberals are just trying to buy illegal votes.
IMHO: If we just deport them they will just come back and murder again. Rather than burden the system with an illegal situation, we should be done with them permanently.
I was going to say, if that's the real number, we need to put in a couple of express lanes and maybe a self-checkout lane.
/johnny
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And I would take a commie rag serious, WHY?
“Rick Perry allowed the Thursday evening execution of a Mexican national, even though the action violated U.S. treaty obligations under the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations to U.S. states”
What an ignorant statement. The Vienna Convention has nothing to do with executions, it only deals with consular notification. In my experience, notification of the Mexican (and most other) Consulates would have resulted in precisely zero action on the part of Mexico: no attorney, no visit, no nothin’. Besides, this guy wouldn’t have contacted them anyway, as he grew up in the US.
This particular “bloody shirt” is being waved in the wrong direction.
Colonel, USAFR
Funny how fast one of ‘God’s children just seeking his piece of the American Dream’ turns into a ‘Mexican National’ depending on how the spin goes.
reporting 11,400 more on TX death row]
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Really?! let them all ride the lightning..
Obama, as POTUS, has the power to pardon or commute a sentence. His failure to do so must mean that he wanted Leal dead.
"If you come to Texas and kill someone, we will kill you back!"
--Ron "Tater Salad" White
Great. But she's still dead. And now... so's he. So there.
he was in this country ILLEGALLY, you give up treaty rights at that point.
You also have the USSC which rejected this nonsense.
From People's World"about us" page:
We are partisan to the working class, racially and nationally oppressed peoples, women, youth, seniors, international solidarity, Marxism and socialism. We enjoy a special relationship with the Communist Party USA, founded in 1919, and publish its news and views.
IIRC, the President signed the treaty, but the Senate never ratified it.
Further, the perp never brought up his alien status during the trial(s). It only became an issue AFTER he was sentenced.
So to hell with the treaty, and the author.
Wait till they hear about Judge Roy Bean. (snicker)
This Piece of feces murdered this girl in 1994 and the Mexicans and the UN have just discovered he didn’t get to call his embassy.
That sounds to me a little like Tough Sh**.
He is dead now ,if you have any others in there who have had their rights violated I suggest the UN and other bleeding hearts start complaining now instead of waiting until the day before they meet their just reward.
I offer the guy a hearty AMF.
Dear Mexico:
You can have him back now.
Texas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ8jGqdE2iw