Jeezy
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Convicted in '94 and executed seventeen years later...god bless our appeals system.
But yeah, the argument against executing him is bull from top to bottom. You can't throw out a lower court ruling JUST because the President is working on changing the law to give domestic effect to a global treaty obligation, but hasn't even won legal here approval yet. If Congress wanted to prevent executions that supposedly "damaged" foreign policy concerns, the law would have been passed by now.
It's seven years since the World Court ruled that the U.S. was in violation of the Vienna Convention. Obviously, Congress did not think the foreign policy implications of executing foreign nationals were important enough to write a law, even though they had SEVEN DAMN YEARS to do it. It would be different if the man actually had a chance of overturning his conviction if he were to consult with the foreign consuls at this point... but he doesn't. The case is over. No one in Mexico is disputing his guilt.
If you want to pass the Vienna treaty, that's fine. But staying this guy's execution because of it? Senseless.
But yeah, the argument against executing him is bull from top to bottom. You can't throw out a lower court ruling JUST because the President is working on changing the law to give domestic effect to a global treaty obligation, but hasn't even won legal here approval yet. If Congress wanted to prevent executions that supposedly "damaged" foreign policy concerns, the law would have been passed by now.
It's seven years since the World Court ruled that the U.S. was in violation of the Vienna Convention. Obviously, Congress did not think the foreign policy implications of executing foreign nationals were important enough to write a law, even though they had SEVEN DAMN YEARS to do it. It would be different if the man actually had a chance of overturning his conviction if he were to consult with the foreign consuls at this point... but he doesn't. The case is over. No one in Mexico is disputing his guilt.
If you want to pass the Vienna treaty, that's fine. But staying this guy's execution because of it? Senseless.