Jose Medellin

Jose Medellin is on death row for murder. In 1993, when he was 18 years old, Jose Medellin raped and killed 2 girls. Jose Medellin's final legal trial started on Oct 10, 2007. Medellin is arguing that he was never allowed to contact... [more]

Jose Medellin is on death row for murder. In 1993, when he was 18 years old, Jose Medellin raped and killed 2 girls.

Jose Medellin's final legal trial started on Oct 10, 2007. Medellin is arguing that he was never allowed to contact consular officials from Mexico, and therefore his case is in violation of the Vienna Convention treaty.

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Execution Mexican Violation | U.N. court rules U.S. execution violated treaty

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From: imacroautobots.com

U.N. court rules U.S. execution violated treaty A United Nations court has found that the United States violated an international treaty and the court’s own order when a Mexican national was executed last year in a Texas prison. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a ruling Monday in an unusual case that pitted President Bush against his home state in a dispute over federal authority, local sovereignty and foreign treaties. Mexico had filed a formal complaint against U.S. state and federal officials "The United States of America has breached the obligation incumbent upon it" to stop the execution, the ICJ announced in a ... Read Full Story

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Should Jose Medellin Be Executed?

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From: www.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. There is one minor twist. Mr. Medellin is a Mexican citizen. He was allegedly denied access to the Mexican ... Read Full Story

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

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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 the president to execute the laws, not make them,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the court’s decision pertaining to the president’s authority, international law and ... Read Full Story

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WHAT AN AMIGO THEY HAVE IN GEORGIE

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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 the Supreme Court, which hears the case this week, ultimately will sort out. The president ... Read Full Story

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Giving Grounds for Injustice

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From: www.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 - by Jose Medellin. Our Justice Department has either bungled or purposely 'thrown' the case. With the amount of politicization that has ... Read Full Story

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