Thread: Bush wants to halt Mexican rapist and killer's execution!!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299917,00.html

Death Penalty Case Puts Bush and Texas at Odds Over Mexican's Fate
Sunday, October 07, 2007

WASHINGTON — President Bush, who presided over 152 executions as governor of Texas, wants to halt the state's execution of a Mexican national for the brutal killing of two teenage girls.

The case of Jose Ernesto Medellin has become a confusing test of presidential power that the U.S. Supreme Court, which hears the case this week, ultimately will sort out.

The president wants to enforce a decision by the International Court of Justice that found the convictions of Medellin and 50 other Mexican-born prisoners violated their rights to legal help as outlined in the 1963 Vienna Convention.

That is the same court Bush has since said he plans to ignore if it makes similar decisions affecting state criminal laws.

"The president does not agree with the ICJ's interpretation of the Vienna Convention," the administration said in arguments filed with the court. This time, though, the U.S. agreed to abide by the international court's decision because ignoring it would harm American interests abroad, the government said.

Texas argues that neither the international court nor Bush has any say in Medellin's case.

Medellin was born in Mexico, but spent much of his childhood in the United States. He was 18 in June 1993, when he and other members of the Black and Whites gang in Houston encountered two teenage girls on a railroad trestle.

The girls were gang-raped and strangled. Their bodies were found four days later.

Medellin was arrested a few days later. He was told he had a right to remain silent and have a lawyer present, but the police did not tell him that he could request assistance from the Mexican consulate.

Medellin gave a written confession. He was convicted of murder in the course of a sexual assault, a capital offense in Texas. A judge sentenced him to death in October 1994.

Medellin did not raise the lack of assistance from Mexican diplomats during his trial or sentencing. When he did claim his rights had been violated, Texas and federal courts turned him down because he had not objected at his trial. Mexico later sued the United States in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, on behalf of Medellin and 50 other Mexicans on death row in the U.S.

Bush needs to be tried for TREASON ... Tried by a jury of his peers with due process and sentance carried out in accordance with federal laws in regard to TREASON

Most of you are too nice to this flaky piece of cow dung ... I want justice

In contrast to his violent pursuit of Ramos and Compean, this has to be the ultimate reveal. We are being governed by cosmopolitan forces beant on inducing rule BY law.

I am not making the argument that a President cannot challenge and disagree with opinions. But, he has presided over more than 150 executions when he was Gov of Texas. Now he has openly decided to smite the victims and the families of the victims for the sake of an illgeal alien?!? One who murdered and raped these folk?!?!

This is the behavior of tyrants. I am not sure about others but I consider this utter madness, purely vindictive behavior. I cannot express how utterly dispicable it is to disgard the crime committed, especially after having spent some much of his time pretending to be tough on criminals and supportive of capitol punishment! My friends, this is proof positive that someone else is running our country and it isn't any of the established branches. I really can't express in words how amazingly destructive this is.

This IS NOT a case about punishment of behavior, but the criminal is simply saying he suffered from supposedly not being able to confer with the Mexican consulate. Bush wants to "decriminalize" the participation and meddling in American affairs by Mexican consulates. He wants to set precident in favor of Mexican government officials, even at the cost of the victims families! This crosses every line and I will wager that the decision made by the Supreme Court will have much more weight than they realize. If they rule in favor of this murderer, Bush will have driven a nail in our coffin that we will not be able to pluck out.

This tyrant and traitor has to be stopped!

I am sure that Texans on this board shudder everytime this Connecticut poser calls Texas his home state.

Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

Bush needs to be tried for TREASON ... Tried by a jury of his peers with due process and sentance carried out in accordance with federal laws in regard to TREASON

Most of you are too nice to this flaky piece of cow dung ... I want justice

I have nothing nice or positive to say about Bush. Nothing whatsoever.

Was Jose Ernesto Medellin an illegal alien at the time of this crime?

W

I have an idea.........give him amnesty and citizenship like the idiot Bush wants to give to many. (MOD EDIT)

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

Was Jose Ernesto Medellin an illegal alien at the time of this crime?

W

Yes.

Here is a copy of the Supreme Court Case:
http://www.debevoise.com/publications/p ... tition.pdf

By the way a Federal Appeals Court ruled that this treaty Bush is citing DOES NOT give individual prisoners cause of action. They found that it is only applicable to sovereign nations.
Court Decision pdf

NC Times Article

Most importantly a Texas court ruled Bush "exceeded his constitutional authority" by mandating that US courts follow a March 2005 International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision giving individuals rights under the Vienna Convention and saying that the US was obligated to grant review and reconsideration of their convictions and sentences to the ICJ.

Case Breif

Jurist Synopsis Article:
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2 ... y-does.php

Bush "exceeded his constitutional authority"

If there is one thing that our Superior Commandante "Presedente Boosh" Supreme Leader of the Bean Picker Nation excels at... it's "exceeding his constitutional authority"

In just about everything he touches