White House Seeks Delay of Mexican Man's Execution as Supreme Court Mulls Case
As the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether to block a Mexican man's execution in Texas, the White House is pleading for a stay in the case that has pitted Texas justice against international treaty rights.
Humberto Leal, 38, is set to die in Huntsville for the 1994 brutal rape and murder of 16-year-old Adria Sauceda, of San Antonio. President Obama, the State Department and Mexican authorities have all asked Texas for a last-minute reprieve of Leal, citing the U.N.-enforced 1963 Vienna Treaty, which requires foreign nationals who are arrested in foreign countries the right to access their consulates.
Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have said if Texas disregards the treaty, it may have consequences for American citizens arrested abroad.
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Sauceda, according to court documents, was found naked when authorities discovered her body in May 1994.
"There was a 30- to 40-pound asphalt rock roughly twice the size of the victim's skull lying partially on the victim's left arm," court documents read. "Blood was underneath this rock. A smaller rock with blood on it was located near the victim's right thigh. There was a gaping hole from the corner of the victim's right eye extending to the center of her head from which blood was oozing. The victim's head was splattered with blood."
A "bloody and broken" stick roughly 15 inches long with a screw at the end of it was also protruding from the girl's vagina, according to the documents.
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"Texas is not bound by a foreign court's ruling,” Katherine Cesinger, press secretary for Gov. Perry's office, said in a statement.
"The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that the treaty was not binding on the states and that the president does not have the authority to order states to review cases of the then 51 foreign nationals on death row in the U.S."
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If this doesn't outrage you....Nothing will.
Those mealy mouthed mother fuckers?
Let folks like that, criminal, into our country everyday.
They don't do "fuck all" about it.
When it suits them politically?
They change the rules/laws to suit themselves and personal political agenda.
Old Pudfark sez: " I guess it ain't no secret...that I believe? That
"stick with the screw in it?"....Should be sticking out some politicians ass...like the flag on Mount Suribachi.
