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Bush interferes in Texas execution

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posted on Oct, 7 2007 @ 08:42 AM
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WASHINGTON - To put it bluntly, Texas wants President Bush to get out of the way of the state's plan to execute a Mexican for the brutal killing of two teenage girls.

Bush, who presided over 152 executions as governor of Texas, wants to halt the execution of Jose Ernesto Medellin in what has become a confusing test of presidential power that the Supreme Court, which hears the case this week, ultimately will sort out.

The president wants to enforce a decision by the International Court of Justice that found the convictions of Medellin and 50 other Mexican-born prisoners violated their rights to legal help as outlined in the 1963 Vienna Convention.

That is the same court Bush has since said he plans to ignore if it makes similar decisions affecting state criminal laws.


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Bush was elected Governor of Texas in January 1995. This man was sentenced in October 1994. If Bush had such an issue with it, couldn't he have used his political power at the time to do something? Or possibly do something when he was elected Governor?

Bush's stance is that this guy didn't receive assistance from Mexican diplomats. However, he did not raise this issue during the trial, something he should have done, and something his lawyer should have known to do. He gave a written confession. And he was convicted in a court of law.

Yet, Bush wants to interfere, even though it's none of his business, because the states have their own legal processes, and he wants to enforce some law from an international court that he has said he plans to ignore!

What is with the damn hypocrisy?

This guy participated in the gang rape and strangulation of two teenage girls. He deserves to die.



 
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