Jose Medellin confessed in 1993 to participating in the rape and murder of two Houston teenagers. Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena were sodomized and strangled with their shoe laces. Medellin bragged about keeping one girl's Mickey Mouse watch as a souvenir of the crime.Medellin and four others were convicted of capital murder and sent to Texas' death row. A juvenile court sentenced Medellin's younger brother, who was 14 at the time, to 40 years in prison.
The intervention in the case by the Bush administration comes after the International Court of Justice found Medellin was not informed of his right to contact the Mexican Consulate for legal assistance.
That, according to the Hague, was a violation of a 1963 treaty known as the Vienna Convention.
... The Bush administration became involved in the Medellin case in 2003 when Mexico sued the U.S. over the consular issue in the International Court of Justice at the Hague. The so-called "World Court" is the United Nations' top court for resolving international disputes.
The court ruled in Mexico's favor in late 2004 and ordered the U.S. to reconsider the Mexican inmates' murder convictions and death sentences. In February 2005, Bush announced that while he disagreed with the World Court's decision, the U.S. would comply. He ordered courts in Texas and elsewhere to review the cases.
... and some folks still insist Bush is no International Socialist - I.Q.s have taken a huge downward dive!
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We have been heading the wrong direction for a long, long time!
Yet when the international courts convict war criminals such as the nazis at Nuremburg or Slobodan Milosumbitch, conservatives are okay with that. And at one point the Iraq War was justified by rendering judgment on Saddam as a brutal dictator who gassed his own people, which put the US on the enforcement side of what was in effect an international court. The only way to avoid the taint of hypocrisy is to oppose all such interventions, no matter which country it benefits.
ABSOLUTELY! T! - Couldn't agree more!
ALL of the international entanglements are wrong! The U.N., the Law of the Sea Treaty, the G-8 Summits, etc. - ALL WRONG!
Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin, Congress and the Politicians should have never gotten involved in such ridiculous situations.
The Nazis could have been tried and executed by us, America, us alone - just like the combatants at GITMO. We have not learned to take responsibility in so many ways, though in some ways we have, especially when compared to other countries.
It's not just Conservatives, however, it's Liberals as well.
You and I may say that the good book is a true guide for us!?! Well, the Constitution and Founding "Fathers" should be our guide for government - but alas - it isn't so.
Mr. Tiger, Ms Teresita,
Thank you for your comments.
This story sickens and frightens me.
When, truly, will enough be enough?
It does not give me glee to say it, Lady, but it will never be "enough".
The idea is to destroy "nationalism"; to make us all ONE.
We will see this no matter who is in the Whitehouse; Liberal or Conservative.
Ladyhawk: This story sickens and frightens me. When, truly, will enough be enough?
"...the International Court of Justice found Medellin was not informed of his right to contact the Mexican Consulate for legal assistance."
It's kind of hard to steer a gentleman to the Mexican Consulate when the police are forbidden by statute from even asking the immigration status of perps.
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