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Due process was afforded to this individual identical to ANY US citizen. What wasnt done was a man that raped and murdered a 16 year old child that had been in the US since he was 2 years old was not identified as a foreign national and told he could meet with the mejican consul. Blame his attorney. The state of Texas arrested a criminal...Mirandized him, provided him a lawyer, tried him, convicted him, and sentenced him to death. The absolute reality is that if he had been sentenced to life imprisonment you wouldnt even know his name nor give half a squirt about him OR his rights.
The State has the responsibility to inform him of his rights under the treaty. I find it hard to believe that through the entire process, the State of Texas failed to learn he was not a U.S. citizen. This does not exactly inspire confidence in the Texas legal system.
None of what you or anyone else has said changes the fact that the United States, though the continuining actions of the State of Texas, is in repeated violation of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.