I'm anti-death penalty for many reasons. Too many mistakes (hell, call 'em what they are, frame-ups) are made in AmeriKan justice, and you can't give back life to an innocent person.
Related: DNA test casts doubt on guilt of Texas man executed 10 years ago for 1989 murder
Related: Texas Gets It Wrong
Texan Has It Right
See?
"Texas executes Mexican after stay rejected" by Associated Press / July 8, 2011
HUNTSVILLE, Texas - A Mexican national was executed yesterday for the rape and slaying of a San Antonio teenager after the US Supreme Court turned down a White House-supported appeal to spare him in a death penalty case where Texas justice triumphed over international treaty concerns....
Humberto Leal, 38, moved with his family from Monterrey, Mexico, to the United States as a toddler. Police never told Leal following his arrest that he could seek legal assistance from the Mexican government under an international treaty. His case had prompted appeals on what it could mean for other foreigners arrested in the United States and for Americans detained in other countries. His lawyers said such assistance would have helped his defense.
The argument was not new. Texas has executed other condemned foreign nationals who raised similar challenges, most recently in 2008.
Leal’s appeals focused on legislation introduced last month in the Senate by Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont. Leahy’s measure would bring the United States into compliance with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations provision regarding the arrests of foreign nationals and ensure court reviews for foreigners to determine whether the lack of consular help made a difference a case’s outcome.
States rights, case closed.
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And just over the border:
"24-hour toll: 40 deaths tied to gangs
MEXICO CITY - Fighting among the Zetas gang and other drug cartels led to the deaths of more than 40 people in three Mexican cities in a 24-hour span, an official said yesterday.
Related: Mexican Oil Siphoning Story Stinks
Sure does.
Here's in even bigger stinker due to Globe omission:
US Government Gun-running To Narco Gangs In Mexico
Also see: Another Mexico Drug Cartel Leader Arrested, Says Guns Supplied By U.S Government
And yes, we ALL KNOW that GOVERNMENT INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES are the BIGGEST "illegal" DRUG DEALERS GOING, with MONEY-LAUNDERING BANKS at the BOTTOM of it!
At least 20 people were killed when gunmen opened fire in a bar late Friday in Monterrey. Eleven bodies were found earlier Friday near Mexico City, and 10 yesterday in Torreon."
Related: Mexico searches for 7 missing in boating accident
Did they ever find them?
Also see: Guatemalan would-be mayor charged in rivals’ deaths
Guatemala has its own gangs.
Haitian president tries again on prime minister nomination
How's the cholera during hurricane season down there?
