It’s sad when Texas’ love-affair with the death penalty is so strong that it will kill someone in defiance of the International Court, the Government of Mexico, the State Department, and the Bush administration. All of those groups joined together to ask Gov. Rick Perry to refrain from murdering José E. Medellín. It didn’t work. Medellín is dead.
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Anxiously awaiting the Toby Keith song about it.
So I guess Rick Perry won’t be crossing over to Mexico any time soon, now that he’s a murderer under international law? But doesn’t the US have an obligation now to arrest him and turn him over for prosecution?
Obviously not. State Law is the governing factor.
The dark hilarity in all this is that the Bush Administration said “no” to an execution.