Mexico at World Court to stay U.S. executions

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

THE HAGUE — Mexico made an emergency appeal to the UN's highest court Thursday to block the execution of its citizens on death row in the United States.

Mexico's chief advocate Juan Manuel Gomez-Robledo said the United States was “in breach of its international obligations” by disregarding a 2004 judgment by the United Nation's International Court of Justice, which ruled that Mexicans had been denied the right to help from their consulate after being arrested.

... President George W. Bush accepted the 2004 judgment and asked state courts to review the cases, but Texas refused.

The issue went to the Supreme Court, which ruled last March in a 6-3 vote that Mr. Bush lacked the authority to compel state courts to comply with the judgment from The Hague. The Vienna Convention cannot be binding on the states unless Congress enacts legislation enforcing it as federal law, the Supreme Court ruled.

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[Demeter]

1. Go Mexico!

And while you are there, could you file some war crime complaints?

[WheelWalker]

3. Dark Side of the Moon.

[varkam]

2. Texas ain't gonna let a little thing like law git in the way of killin' people!*

Especially if said people happen to have a skin tone that is, shall we say, not white

[Jack_DeLeon]

4. I support the death penalty...

dont want to be executed in Texas dont murder our citizens.

[boilinmad]

6. What part of...

....Thou Shalt not Kill do people not understand. All I ever hear is what a "Christian" nation we are. I guess that means we play the role of Christ and decide who lives and dies. Interesting.

[michreject]

8. It's "Thou Shalt not Murder"

It got changed in translation.

[Jack_DeLeon]

11. I thought we were supposed to have separation of church and state here...

so why should we rely on that.

That being said, there is a difference between murder and killing. When you kill an innocent person for no reason that is murder. When you kill someone in self defense, or as punishment for committing a violent crime then that is not murder.

[mainegreen]

5. Sounds like some texans soon wont be able to travel to foriegn countries.

Lets add some more texans, plus one fake texan to that list.

[architect359]

7. Alright - what is the penalty then, if TX proceeds with the executions?

I mean, what's stopping TX?

[Igel]

9. Penalty? None, that anybody's said.

What's stopping Texas? Nothing. The executions are scheduled, as would be any executions of any other people sentenced to death. Texas does things, as do most states, on its own schedule, with its own implementation of due process.

[cobalt1999]

10. Mexico might as well argue their case to my dogs.

The U.S. isn't bound to follow their decisions either.