Rune (01-20-2014), Truth Detector (01-23-2014)
Mexico's government 'strongly rejects' upcoming execution in Texas of Mexican citizen
The Mexican government said Sunday it "strongly rejects" the execution scheduled this week in Texas of a Mexican man convicted of killing a police officer.
The Foreign Relations Department said in a statement that executing Edgar Tamayo would be yet another U.S. violation of an international treaty involving such cases.
Tamayo is set for lethal injection Wednesday for the 1994 fatal shooting of a police officer who had arrested him for a robbery.
Mexico has been asking the United Sates to halt Tamayo's execution because the inmate wasn't told he could get legal help from the Mexican government as agreed under the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
Tamayo's lawyers say assistance from the Mexican consulate could have helped him obtain mitigating evidence to persuade jurors to choose a punishment other than death.
Legal challenges regarding the convention and foreign nationals on Texas death row aren't new. At least two other Texas inmates in similar circumstances have been executed in recent years.
In 2004, the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, found Tamayo and more than four dozen Mexican citizens awaiting execution in the United States weren't advised of their consular rights under the Vienna Convention when they were arrested. The court urged new hearings in courts where those people were convicted to determine if consular access would have affected their cases.
A year later, President George W. Bush agreed with the international court and urged that new hearings be held. The U.S. Supreme Court, however, overruled Bush and the impact of the international court decision in an appeal brought by Mexican national and Texas death row inmate Jose Medellin. A Supreme Court majority determined that only Congress could require states to follow the international court's ruling.
Legislation to accomplish that has never been passed.
SEDITION: incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority.
Rune (01-20-2014), Truth Detector (01-23-2014)
Mexico should stay out of U.S business. They need to worry about the cartels "executing" its citizens.
The Dude (01-19-2014)
Mexico just wants some attention. Where's the love, Barack?
I strongly object to Mexico sealing off its southern border while doing a weak job patrolling its northern border.
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/MSG/ (01-23-2014)
I object to the death penalty regardless of the situation.
It is the responsibility of every American citizen to own a modern military rifle.
Boris The Animal (01-23-2014)
/MSG/ (01-23-2014), christiefan915 (01-23-2014)
Someone should send Mexico the bill for having to kill him....
Edgar Tamayo, a Mexican national, is set to die by lethal injection in a Texas death chamber at 7 p.m. ET on Wednesday.
Boris The Animal (01-23-2014), Cancel 2016.2 (01-23-2014), Minister of Truth (01-23-2014), Truth Detector (01-23-2014)
I am like Rune, I object to the death penalty regardless of the situation.
christiefan915 (01-23-2014)
If we had a REAL leader in this country, he would tell the Mexicans to pound sand. If you allow brutal murderous thugs to wander into the US and they commit crimes, we'll send them all back to you in body bags.
But alas, we have a spineless dunce as a President who wouldn't know what leadership was if it slapped him on his empty arrogant head.
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
the best argument I will entertain is that innocent people end up getting killed. Still though, it's hard for me to be against the death penalty on any one specific case when it's obvious someone committed the crime.
I do think some people just flat out deserve to die, that they have forfeited their life, and that the only way for justice to be truly served is for them to fall into oblivion. If you illegally take a life and are still alive, there is an equation that is unbalanced, and we need to balance it.
Minister of Truth (01-23-2014)
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christiefan915 (01-23-2014)
WATERMARK, GREATEST OF THE TRINITY, ON CHIK-FIL-A
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SmarterthanYou (01-23-2014)
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Rune (01-23-2014)
StormX (01-23-2014)
Edgar Tamayo Arias, a Mexican national, was executed at 9:32 p.m. CT, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said.
His execution marks the first of the year in Texas and the 509th in the state since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
Tamayo did not make a statement before his death, department spokesman Jason Clark said.
http://newday.blogs.cnn.com/2014/01/...rias-executed/
Congrats Edgar on being the first for 2014...
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