To put it bluntly, Texas wants President Bush to get out of the way of the state's plan to execute a Mexican for the brutal killing of two teenage girls. Bush wants to enforce a decision by the International Court of Justice that found the convictions of Jose Ernesto Medellin and 50 other Mexican-born prisoners violated their rights to legal help as outlined in the 1963 Vienna Convention. The Supreme Court will hear argument Wednesday in the case, which has become a confusing test of presidential power.
October 09, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
To put it bluntly, Texas wants President Bush to get out of the way of the state’s plan to execute a Mexican for the brutal killing of two teenage girls.
Bush, who presided over 152 executions as governor of Texas, wants to halt the execution of Jose Ernesto Medellin in what has become a confusing test of presidential power that the Supreme Court ultimately will sort out.
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