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Medellin Execution 'Defied Court Order'

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That's the headline of the BBC report.  LINK The International Court of Justice says the US was in breach of an order not to execute a Mexican man sentenced to death in Texas after a flawed trial. The court was handing down judgment in a bid by Mexico to force a review of the sentences of 51 of its citizens on death row in the US. Mexico says the US ignored a ruling by the court in 2004 that America had denied the Mexicans consular access. The court said then that the convictions should be reconsidered. The International Court of Justice - the UN's highest court - issued an emergency ruling last July intended to halt pending executions. But three weeks later Texas gave a lethal injection to Jose Medellin, convicted of the rape and murder of two teenage girls...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 19, 2009 (boomark / email).