Bush backs Mexico, Rapist-murderer

[American Eagle]

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case Wednesday in which the Bush administration will seek to overturn the death penalty of a convicted rapist-murderer at the behest of the International Court of Justice.

Jose Medellin confessed in 1993 to participating in the rape and murder of two Houston teenagers. Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena were sodomized and strangled with their shoe laces. Medellin bragged about keeping one girl's Mickey Mouse watch as a souvenir of the crime.

Medellin and four others were convicted of capital murder and sent to Texas' death row. A juvenile court sentenced Medellin's younger brother, who was 14 at the time, to 40 years in prison.

The intervention in the case by the Bush administration comes after the International Court of Justice found Medellin was not informed of his right to contact the Mexican Consulate for legal assistance.

That, according to the Hague, was a violation of a 1963 treaty known as the Vienna Convention.

"We find ourselves in an unusual position," Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz told the Houston Chronicle. "Texas is not regularly litigating against the United States. But sadly enough, the United States will appear alongside Medellin at the argument."

Medellin v. Texas will be argued Wednesday and could determine the fate of Medellin and 50 other Mexican killers on death rows in the United States, including more than a dozen in Texas. All of them say they were not told of their right to contact Mexico for legal help.

The court is expected to produce a ruling clarifying which powers reside with the president, Congress and courts, which powers belong to the federal government versus the states, and what the relationship is between international and domestic law.

The Bush administration became involved in the Medellin case in 2003 when Mexico sued the U.S. over the consular issue in the International Court of Justice at the Hague. The so-called "World Court" is the United Nations' top court for resolving international disputes.

The court ruled in Mexico's favor in late 2004 and ordered the U.S. to reconsider the Mexican inmates' murder convictions and death sentences. In February 2005, Bush announced that while he disagreed with the World Court's decision, the U.S. would comply. He ordered courts in Texas and elsewhere to review the cases.

A few days later, however, the president withdrew the U.S. from the part of the Vienna Convention that gives the World Court final say in international disputes.

The Supreme Court, which had agreed to hear Medellin's case, dismissed it later in 2005 to allow the case to play out in Texas. Last November, the all-Republican Texas Court of Criminal Appeals balked at the president's order, saying Bush had overstepped his authority.

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[Free-Thinker]

Kill them all. Texas is about the only state left with the death penality, they need to use it.

The US spends about $50,000 per year on each inmate in most every prison. Most prisoners never reform as they sit around killing other inmates and rapping the rest. Most states did away with chain gangs so now we just spend tax dollars to let them sit around all day long doing nothing.

You are convicted of a serious crime, you should lose all rights. Especially if you took the life of someone else.

There has to be a better way to reform those that wish to better themselves once they realized what they did was wrong. Then there are others that know what they did was wrong and will do it again.

I say no to multiple life sentenses, if they are going to serve that much time, put them on death row or create a prison island to send them to so they can try to survive on their own.

As for as Bush, he's been sleeping with the Mexican government for a while now. I'm not sure who is putting money in Bush's pocket and the rest of his administration but the United States will be the North American Union before to long.

[American Eagle]

Free-Thinker wrote:

Kill them all. Texas is about the only state left with the death penality, they need to use it.
The US spends about $50,000 per year on each inmate in most every prison. Most prisoners never reform as they sit around killing other inmates and rapping the rest. Most states did away with chain gangs so now we just spend tax dollars to let them sit around all day long doing nothing.
You are convicted of a serious crime, you should lose all rights. Especially if you took the life of someone else.
There has to be a better way to reform those that wish to better themselves once they realized what they did was wrong. Then there are others that know what they did was wrong and will do it again.
I say no to multiple life sentenses, if they are going to serve that much time, put them on death row or create a prison island to send them to so they can try to survive on their own.
As for as Bush, he's been sleeping with the Mexican government for a while now. I'm not sure who is putting money in Bush's pocket and the rest of his administration but the United States will be the North American Union before to long.

Excellent Points!

BUSH is in bed with the MEXICAN Government!!!

Screwing the American Tax Payer!!!