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Should Humberto Leal Be Executed?

By bcuban on  From briancuban.com
Humberto Leal has been convicted of rape and murder.  He is sentenced to death.  He is to be executed by lethal injection sometime after 6p.m.(CT) today.  He  was convicted in 1995 in the  rape and murder of teenager Adrea Sauceda.  A  jury took 45 minutes to convict him. This would seem to be just one more routine execution of which Texas leads the nation. It would also seem that if anyone deserved to be executed, Mr. Leal should certainly have that place in death penalty lore.  There is...Read Full Story

Should Jose Medellin Be Executed?

By bcuban on  From briancuban.com
Jose Medellin is a convicted rapist. Jose Medellin is a convicted murderer. Fourteen years ago he was sentenced to death for participating in the gang rape and murder of Elizabeth Pena, 16 and Jennifer Ertman who was 14. The girls had tragically wandered upon a gang initiation. This would seem to be just one more routine execution of which Texas leads the nation. It would also seem that if anyone deserved to be executed, Mr. Medellin should certainly have that place in death penalty lore...Read Full Story

Medellin v. Texas, 06-984: Internationalists Lose Supreme Court Case

By jposty on  From thepoliticus.org
Texas and America in general, win a court decision against the Globalists and the Bush administration, concerning American sovereignty and the right for Texas, in accordance with Texas state law and a trial by peers to execute a convicted murderer.  In a 6-3 Supreme Court decision, the court ruled President Bush overstepped his authority when he intervened on behalf of Jose Ernesto Medellin, facing the death penalty for killing two teenagers nearly 15 years ago.  The Constitution “allows...Read Full Story

WHAT AN AMIGO THEY HAVE IN GEORGIE

By papamoka on  From papastraighttalk.blogspot.com
Picture courtesy of the Supreme Court BY MICHAEL LINN JONES Bush, Texas at odds over death case reads the headline of this AP article by Mark Sherman. WASHINGTON - To put it bluntly, Texas wants President Bush to get out of the way of the state's plan to execute a Mexican for the brutal killing of two teenage girls. Bush, who presided over 152 executions as governor of Texas, wants to halt the execution of Jose Ernesto Medellin in what has become a confusing test of presidential power that...Read Full Story

Giving Grounds for Injustice

By nelsonjs on  From theseminal.com
First, I should say that capital punishment has become increasingly questionable as increasing numbers of wrongful convictions are discovered by DNA evidence. The continuation of death sentences in this society is a black mark on any claims we as a society have to decency. In the case of Jose Medellin, though, the use of execution violates our own laws. The crime is horrible, and is guaranteed to prevent any possibility of sympathy with the criminal. Gang rape and murder of teenaged girls...Read Full Story
Under international law, the only effect one Independent State can have upon another Independent State is through the obligation and terms of a bi-lateral Treaty. This principle is embodied in Article 27 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, that states: a “…party may not invoke the provisions of its internal law as justification for its failure to perform a treaty.”The UK Government draws up on its LEGAL BASIS from Union with...  
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