Thread: World Court says US defied order in death row case

World Court says US defied order in death row case

Monday, January 19, 2009 at 10:23 a.m.

THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS (AP) -- The International Court of Justice has ruled that the United States defied its order when authorities in Texas last year executed a Mexican convicted of rape and murder.

The U.N.'s highest court said the U.S. is still obliged to review the cases of about 50 other Mexicans on death row because they were denied access to their consulate after they were arrested, as required by an international treaty.

The court in its ruling Monday rejected Mexico's request that Washington provide guarantees that no further executions will be conducted without a reconsideration of their cases.

The U.S. argued that the Bush administration tried to carry out the court's demand for a review of all cases, but that it cannot compel individual state courts to comply.
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Form my point of view, I could never understand why anyone would protect rapists and murderers form the death penalty. And in my opinion I also think that they sit too long on death row too!

Actually it was Texas who told them to go pound sand and if they don't like it we can always ship over all of our murders and rappist to them and they can have them.

The U.S. Supreme Court doesn't have to answer to the "World Court"...they can just put a sock in it.

It's a STATE matter, the feds and mexico can bite me.

The world court has NO business telling Texas what to do. This guy paid for his crime according to the laws of our state.

Originally Posted by jshhmr

The world court has NO business telling Texas what to do. This guy paid for his crime according to the laws of our state.

States rights just piss this world court off I bet! Too friggin bad!