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World Court Delays U.S. Executions of 5 Mexicans

One of the five on death row, Jose Medellin, is due to die on August 5 in Texas.


Wednesday, July 16, 2008
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The World Court on Wednesday ordered the United States to do everything necessary to ensure five Mexicans on death row are not executed before the court makes a judgment in a dispute between the two countries.
One of the five on death row, Jose Medellin, is due to die on August 5 in Texas.

In 2004 the World Court found in favor of Mexico and ruled the United States had violated international law by failing to inform 51 Mexicans sentenced to death of their right to consular assistance and ordered the cases should be reviewed. In 2005 U.S. President George W. Bush directed state courts to do so but the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in March that Bush had no authority to do this, leading Texas to schedule Medellin's execution for August.

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Excuse my ignorance, but can anybody tell me which treaty it was that gave the World Court jurisdiction in Texas state business?  I seem to recall that for the last 7 years or so, President Bush has been repeatedly saying that The Hague has no jurisdiction on US soil, usually in response to idiot NeoComs asking questions about US soldiers being extradicted to The Hague for war crimes trials.  Has that changed, and I just never got the ****in' memo; or did I just go to bed in the universe I was born in last night and wake up this morning in Bizzarro world?
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Re: World Court Demands U.S. Halt Executions of Mexicans in Texas
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2008, 11:51:13 AM »
Screw the Hague
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Re: World Court Demands U.S. Halt Executions of Mexicans in Texas
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2008, 12:01:58 PM »
Screw the Hague

To liberal...therefore.....to ugly.

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Re: World Court Demands U.S. Halt Executions of Mexicans in Texas
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2008, 12:51:17 PM »
Excuse my ignorance, but can anybody tell me which treaty it was that gave the World Court jurisdiction in Texas state business? 
Supreme Court Justice Ginsberg seems to think we should follow International Law.
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« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2008, 12:54:51 PM »
Excuse my ignorance, but can anybody tell me which treaty it was that gave the World Court jurisdiction in Texas state business? 
Supreme Court Justice Ginsberg seems to think we should follow International Law.

Supreme Court Justice Ginsberg couldn't find an individual right to bear arms in the Constitution.  Kinda discounts Justice Ginsberg's opinion, in my book.
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Re: World Court Demands U.S. Halt Executions of Mexicans in Texas
« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2008, 02:58:16 PM »
Yet another reason why no nation in the world defers to the authority of the (moonbatty) World Court:

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands —  The U.N.'s highest court ordered U.S. authorities on Wednesday to do everything possible to halt the executions of five Mexicans in Texas until their cases are reviewed.

The Bush administration has unsuccessfully tried to get Texas courts to review the cases and said it expected the World Court's order to have little impact.

The World Court told U.S. authorities in 2004 to review the cases of 51 Mexicans sentenced to death by state courts after finding they had been denied the right to seek help from consular officials.

The World Court has no enforcement powers but President Bush issued a directive to the Texas courts to abide by the 2004 ruling. The state courts refused to review the cases and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in March that the president cannot compel the state courts to comply.

Mexico turned again to the U.N. court in The Hague last month, arguing that the United States was defying the 2004 World Court order and asking the judges to issue an emergency injunction to stop the killings of five men whose executions were imminent.

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The Mexicans are in for gang raping and murdering two teenage girls fifteen years ago. Go, Texas!


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Re: World Court Demands U.S. Halt Executions of Mexicans in Texas
« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2008, 03:04:28 PM »
Duplicate

yeah, well, if you had used the original title of the article as your thread subject (which is required in BN, by the way) it
wouldn't have been so impossible to tell that the article had already been posted.

the guidelines exist for a reason.  this is one of them.




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« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2008, 03:07:59 PM »

threads merged.  thread title and all replies in the thread renamed to conform to Breaking News Forum Rules


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Re: World Court Demands U.S. Halt Executions of Mexicans in Texas
« Reply #9 on: July 17, 2008, 03:54:40 PM »
All 5 mezikns along with crime scene photos should be marched out in front of the news cameras. They should read the jury findings and the judges sentencing while the cameras take in the pictures. Then they should read the world courts opinion, wipe their asses with it and shoot all 5 of the useless cocksuckers dead right there live and in color. Then a helicopter that is sitting there should be used to deport the remains to a Mexican garbage dump for proper disposal.

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« Reply #10 on: July 17, 2008, 07:55:28 PM »
****'em!  :bird:
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« Reply #11 on: July 18, 2008, 05:54:42 AM »
The world court can F.O.A.D.
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« Reply #12 on: July 18, 2008, 08:01:42 AM »
All 5 mezikns along with crime scene photos should be marched out in front of the news cameras. They should read the jury findings and the judges sentencing while the cameras take in the pictures. Then they should read the world courts opinion, wipe their asses with it and shoot all 5 of the useless cocksuckers dead right there live and in color. Then a helicopter that is sitting there should be used to deport the remains to a Mexican garbage dump for proper disposal.



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Re: World Court Demands U.S. Halt Executions of Mexicans in Texas
« Reply #13 on: July 18, 2008, 09:20:43 AM »
the Mexicans shoulda thoughtabout the consequences before they did their raping and murdering, then they wouldn't have to worry about it!

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Re: World Court Demands U.S. Halt Executions of Mexicans in Texas
« Reply #14 on: July 18, 2008, 10:34:07 AM »
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Bellinger said that the World Court has limited powers over U.S. states or federal authorities in Washington.

"It does not have technical legal effect in the United States that would ... have a direct impact either on the United States or on Texas itself," he said.

Damn straight. Now fry the bastards.

They were illegal aliens who raped and murdered two teenage girls.

I googled for case info -

http://urbangrounds.com/2005/03/29/jose-medellin/
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Re: World Court Demands U.S. Halt Executions of Mexicans in Texas
« Reply #15 on: July 18, 2008, 10:40:11 AM »
Maybe the Red Cross can issue a statement declaring Texas as official "Human Rights Violators". 

The Red Cross has pissed me off lately.  I've come to understand from where the red in their cross is derived.

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« Reply #16 on: July 18, 2008, 10:56:10 AM »
Hmmmm...and if they were smuggling drugs into Singapore and got the death penalty, would they be crying up a storm then?  Somehow I think not.
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« Reply #17 on: July 18, 2008, 10:56:52 AM »
All 5 mezikns along with crime scene photos should be marched out in front of the news cameras. They should read the jury findings and the judges sentencing while the cameras take in the pictures. Then they should read the world courts opinion, wipe their asses with it and shoot all 5 of the useless cocksuckers dead right there live and in color. Then a helicopter that is sitting there should be used to deport the remains to a Mexican garbage dump for proper disposal.

Personally, my feeling is that we ought to "exchange prisoners", the way Israel should have handled the "prisoner exchange" they just completed with the Islamofascists. Go to the prison(s) where these animals are being kept, round them up and fly them to a neutral location for "exchange" - the Hague sounds like a wonderful spot, and since they bring the issue up, it sounds to me like they just volunteered.  Land the plane full of animals for "exchange" roll up the jetway, and have a US Marshall at the doorway to the plane, unlocking shackles and saying "buh-bye.... buh-bye now..." as he passes them off to Nederlander polizei forces in the jetway.  Before they get around the jetway corner, a second US Marshall fires one round from his service pistol into the back of the skull of the newly released animal.  From then on, that animal will give us no further problem.

If Mexico doesn't want it's scumbags executed, it should keep them in Mexican territory.
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Re: World Court Demands U.S. Halt Executions of Mexicans in Texas
« Reply #18 on: July 18, 2008, 12:46:11 PM »
Maybe the UN needs to sanction us. Sanction us with their Army. Oh, that's right, they don't have an Army. Guess that means they need to shut the **** up. /Chappelle
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