Mexico Moves To Block U.S. Executions
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - The U.N.’s highest court begins emergency hearings Thursday on Mexico’s appeal to block the execution of its citizens on death row in the United States.
Mexico argues the U.S. government is obliged to enforce a 2004 judgment by the U.N.’s International Court of Justice that Mexicans were denied the right to consular advice after their arrests, as guaranteed by international treaty.
It said the Mexican prisoners should have new court hearings to determine whether the violation of the 1963 Vienna Convention affected their cases.
President Bush accepted the judgment and asked state courts to review the cases. Texas refused.
The issue then went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled last March by a 6-3 vote that Bush had overstepped his authority in ordering state courts to comply with the judgment.
Mexico has asked the court, informally known as the World Court, for an “interpretation” of its earlier ruling to clarify what it meant when it asked the U.S. to “review and reconsider” the cases of the condemned prisoners.
Until that can be done, Mexico asked the court to take urgent action to halt the timetable of executions.
Hearings by the 15-member tribunal were scheduled for Thursday and Friday.
Mexico’s application listed five of its citizens slated to die. The first, on Aug. 5, is Jose Medellin, 33, condemned in the gang rape and murder of two teenage girls 15 years ago.
Texas authorities have said Medellin’s case has been reviewed by state and federal courts and that he had been given the same right as any American citizen.
But Mexico said in its appeal to the World Court that the U.S. obligation to follow international law also applies to individual states. “The United States cannot invoke municipal law as justification for failure to perform its international legal obligations,” it said.
The International Court of Justice is the U.N.’s judicial arm for resolving legal disputes among member states. Its decisions are binding and not subject to appeal, and only rarely have they been defied. Though it has no power of enforcement, the court can report any failure to abide by its decisions to the Security Council.
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Dear Mexico, Fuck You…you’re a Catholic country, I to, am a Catholic and I say to you, read the Holy Bible…you know, the part which reads, “an eye for an eye”.
PS - Please fix what’s wrong with your country that’s causing more than half a million of your citizens to illegally cross our border every year.
June 18th, 2008 at 10:49 pmFuck Mexico. And fuck our ancestors who decided to not make Mexico a state after we kicked their ass. But then, hindsight is 20/20. Who knew that the, “PROUD”(only in the U.S. where the Federales and La Mafia can’t get us because we are too chickenshit to fight them) Mexican people would turn out to be such whiny little bitches. Pinche llorones.
June 18th, 2008 at 11:16 pmSince when do other countries get to decide OUR justice system???That’s what SCOTUS is for
June 19th, 2008 at 2:22 amMore insanity from Mexico city. Calderon needs to wake up. I assure if I went to Mexico and raped and murdered 2 teeage girls. My live body would never make it to the police station alive. These people are here illegally. They must be made to adhere to our laws. We give them the same rights as our own citizens, more than Mexico would do I assure.
This is the United States of America. I hope we have the good sense to deport every illegal alien here from wherever, not only Mexico. The Mexican army rapes , robs, beats and steals from any illegal alien they catch in their country from Central America. In broad daylight, around noon time,3 months ago in Texas american witnesses saw Mexican Army members, handcuff a Mexican’s hands behind his back and throw him off the middle of the International Bridge at Brownsville, Texas. I am sure he drowned as it is over a 100 foot drop into the deepest part of the Rio Grande. They did this from our boundary side. Over 20 American citizens saw this. And reported it. Not word word about this has surfaced from either the Mexican army, or Federal police, or the Matamoros government, or our government.
They need to focus on taking care of their own citizens. They are assholes, corrupt to the bone and really feel they can do what they want…
June 19th, 2008 at 6:14 amFuck off, Mexico. Find our kidnapped citizens in YOUR country and then we’ll talk. We’ll still tell you to fuck off, but we’ll at least talk.
June 19th, 2008 at 7:46 am
Not only do I advocate the execution of the murdering vermon from Mexico that we have on death row, I would gladly load the bullets! The American public is ready to explode over the problems we are having with our so called “neighbor to the south”. WE THE PEOPLE…remember?
June 19th, 2008 at 7:48 am
Screw Mexico and the U.N…..you break the law in the U.S., you pay the price!!! Comprende?
June 19th, 2008 at 7:50 amChinga tu madres, maricon putos.
Chupa me.
Vaya al Diablo.
Hijos de grand putas.
Eh, I’m sure I’ll remember more later.
June 19th, 2008 at 9:20 amThey’re Catholic in name only, kind of like the Kennedys.
June 19th, 2008 at 9:22 amJose Medellin first scheduled to be executed, and none to soon; 15 years after the fact. Charge abd bill Mexico for feeding this Mexican piece of garbage for the rape and murder of two of our girls. He gets off easy. He had 15 years to think about what he did.
June 19th, 2008 at 10:45 amMexico sucks. Do not go to Mexico. Discourage anybody from going to that lawless place. Mexico is not our friend. Mexico is a disgrace to the Christian nations of the world.
Did I miss the news bulletin that said we’d moved our capital to Mexico City?
June 19th, 2008 at 10:48 amATTENTION MEXICANS BREAKING LAWS IN THE U.S. WE ALL CARRY GUNS NOW SO COME TO NEW ORLEANS AND BREAK IN MY HOUSE. IT IS OPEN SEASON ON WETBACKS DOWN HERE. I WILL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO DEPORT YOU IN A COFFIN. READ THE NEWS IN NEW ORLEANS AND YOU WILL SEE THAT THE ILLEGALS HERE ARE BEING MURDERED EVERYDAY.
June 19th, 2008 at 11:00 am