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He's as good as an American with him living here since he was 2 years old.
I'd think with that free U.S. education he'd know enough about the law to ask for a foreign consul to tell him to shut up if he's raped a 16 year old girl, bludgeoned her with a club and crushed her skull with a 30 pound slab of asphalt. But I suspect his ol' lady never told him he was Mexican and thought all this time he was a g*d damned Texan.
Or at least to haul his ass back to Mexico faster than a jack rabbit running off across the road.
Its not a liberal/conservative issue. GWB also tried to have an execution stopped for the same reasons and was also refused by the SC. For me, this is about the failure of Congress to put the necessary legislation in place in order to ensure that the USA can respect its treaty obligations.
Don't try to feed us that BS about "George Bush Did It Too" .. so it's not a Liberal/Conservative issue!
George Bush was Liberal-Lite on MANY issues and that was just another example!
You Libs can stop using Bush to make your arguments now .. It just doesn't work anymore!
I'd think with that free U.S. education he'd know enough about the law to ask for a foreign consul to tell him to shut up if he's raped a 16 year old girl, bludgeoned her with a club and crushed her skull with a 30 pound slab of asphalt. But I suspect his ol' lady never told him he was Mexican and thought all this time he was a g*d damned Texan.
Or at least to haul his ass back to Mexico faster than a jack rabbit running off across the road.
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So... is he dead yet?
News from AP | The Dallas Morning News, dallasnews.com (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TEXAS_EXECUTION?SITE=TXDAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLAT E=DEFAULT - broken link)
I don't see how this is a liberal/conservative issue. It's about respecting international law. The man had a right to have a member of the Mexican consulate present and wasn't informed of this. This puts Americans jailed in other nations in danger.
For example...
There's a lot of people, myself included, who think Amanda Knox isn't getting a fair shake in Italy. I don't think it's just liberals either.
The only "rights" he has are those are those proscribed in our Constitution. The International Court of Justice has no power here, thankfully.
The only "rights" he has are those are those proscribed in our Constitution. The International Court of Justice has no power here, thankfully.
You're lack of respect for the treaty obligations we signed on to when we ratified the ICJ treaty is disturbing. The US has been a party to the treaty of the ICJ for decades, and this execution, and others, are flagrant violations of the obligations of the treaty we are a part of. I have no sympathy for Leal here, but I worry about the repercussions that our violation of our own treaty obligations will have on our own citizens in future.
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