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Obviously Pres. Obama cares much more about Illegal Immigrants and International Treaties than Citizens of the United States of America.

 

HOUSTON – The Texas parole board refused Tuesday to stop this week's scheduled execution of a Mexican national for raping and killing a 16-year-old girl in a case that has raised diplomatic concerns in both Washington and

Mexico City.

Humberto Leal, 38, faces lethal injection Thursday in Huntsville for the 1994 slaying of Adria Sauceda of San Antonio. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles voted 4-1 to deny a reprieve request. The same panel refused by a 5-0 vote to commute Leal's death sentence to life in prison.

The government of Mexico, the

State Department and the White House have agreed with Leal's attorneys that he should be given a reprieve because of questions about whether the outcome of his trial would have been different if he had been allowed to obtain legal help from the Mexican consulate when he was arrested.

The Obama administration took the unusual step Friday of asking the U.S.

Supreme Court to stop Texas from executing Leal. The administration said the court should delay the execution for up to six months to give Congress time to consider legislation that would directly affect Leal's case.

Leal's lawyers say police violated an international treaty by not telling Leal he could contact the Mexican consulate for assistance after his arrest for the murder of Sauceda.

The federal government rarely intervenes in state death penalty cases. The thrust of the administration's legal argument deals with the government's international treaty obligations, not Leal's guilt or innocence, or even whether he should ultimately be executed.

"If Texas were to proceed with the scheduled execution of Mr. Leal ... there could be no dispute that that execution would be unlawful -- specifically, in violation of treaty commitments validly made by the

United States through constitutionally prescribed processes," Sandra Babcock, a Northwestern University law professor who is one of Leal's attorneys, said last week in her appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

"Texas, by insisting on executing Mr. Leal before Congress has had a chance to act, seeks to break the United States' promise," Babcock said.

"Texas is not bound by a foreign court's ruling," Katherine Cesinger, Perry's press secretary, said Tuesday. "If you commit the most heinous of crimes in Texas, you can expect to face the ultimate penalty under our laws, as in this case."

Police discovered Sauceda's nude body on a dirt road in San Antonio in May 1994. Evidence showed she had been raped, beaten with a large rock and strangled. A large stick that had a screw protruding from it was left in her body.

Among other evidence, the bite mark was matched to Leal. Her bloody blouse was found at Leal's home. She and Leal had been attending a party not far from where she was found.

Leal's lawyers said it wasn't until he already was on death row that he learned from a fellow inmate that he could have sought legal help from the Mexican consulate.



http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011...lease/#ixzz1RLqN5hKW

 

Skippy

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All you right wing tea party Constitutional purists out there need to consider this:

 

“This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.”

The United States Constitution, Article VI

 

But on the other hand, this gives an indication of Rick Perry’s loyalty to anything other thanTexas, this having to do with respect for the United States and its laws:

 

TEXAS

Perry stands by secession comments

GOVERNOR SAYS TEXAS IS ONE STATE THAT COULD LEAVE UNION, THOUGH HE'S NOT PUSHING IT.

By W. Gardner SelbyJason Embry
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF 
Friday, April 17, 2009

 

Gov.Rick Perry on Thursday stuck by his earlier statement that Texas can secede from the United States— a far-reaching, legally questionable prospect that nevertheless drew Perrya fresh favorable mention by Rush Limbaugh, one of the nation's leading conservative voices.

 

The idea of secession — which Perry did not endorse — surfaced suddenly Wednesday after Perry appeared at an anti-tax "tea party" at Austin City Hall, where some in his U.S. flag-waving audience shouted, "Secede!"

 

According to The Associated Press,Perry suggested in response to a reporter's question that Texans might at some point get so fed up with Democratic-led actions in Washington that they would want to secede.

http://www.statesman.com/news/...s/04/17/0417gop.html

 

Giving Leal a reprieve would carry political risk for Perry, who does not want to be seen as sympathetic to a convicted killer. Yet not doing so casts him as unwilling to consider the concerns of the international community - or the treatment of Americans arrested abroad.

In 2005, as The Atlantic notes, then-President GeorgeW. Bush ordered states to comply with international law and give consular access to foreign nationals. Perry, who succeeded Bush in the Texas governor's office, was the only governor to mandate his state not comply. 

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-50...tentMain;contentBody

 

Unless you want to ignore the U.S. Constitution, as originally written by the Founders, that treaty supersedes any Texas law, no matter what the governor or anybody else thinks or says.

 

The Supreme Court apparently did not consider the Constitution in their ruling. Now, nobody has anybody Consitutional rights worth considering if the Supreme Court does not even acknowledge the "supreme law of the land."

 

July 7, 2011 6:18 PM

By a 5-4 vote along ideological lines, the Supreme Court has just refused to stay the execution of convicted killer Humberto Leal Garcia, a Mexican convicted of the rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl in 1994. The Obama Administration, citing concerns over U.S. interests and treaty obligations, had asked the court to delay the execution, scheduled for 7 p.m. Eastern Time tonight.

 Justice Stephen Breyer dissented from the Court's unsigned opinion. He was joined by the Court's three other liberal justices.

 "The Court ignores the appeal of the President in a matter related to foreign affairs, it substitutes its own views about the likelihood of congressional action for the views of Executive Branch officials who have consulted with Members of Congress, and it denies the request by four Members of the Court to delay the execution until the Court can discuss the matter at Conference in September, "Breyer wrote. "In my view, the Court is wrong in each respect."

I agree with Justice Breyer. It is a sad day in this country and a dangerous moment for justice if even the majority of the Supreme Court chooses to ignore the Constitution and vote their ideology. But I shouldn't be surprised. That's what Republicans do.

 

 

 

 

Last edited by The Propagandist

Your first paragraph is a strawman, meant to divert from the thread at hand and defame Perry.  Rick Perry stated an opinion, that because of Texas's method of becoming a state, she could legally leave.  As ,Texas was originally a separate nation which voluntarily entered the Union and seceded Oklahoma to the US.  Perry specifically stated he did not wish secession.  Therefore, do not infer he was in favor of it. Until 1860, textbooks at West Point taught that individual states could leave the Union.  

 

 

As to treaty obligations, Mexico will not extradite US citizens to the US if they face the death penalty or life without possibility of parole.  Definitely, a violation of international law, as both parties entered into a treaty specifically allowing such.   

Originally Posted by interventor1212:

Your first paragraph is a strawman, meant to divert from the thread at hand and defame Perry.  Rick Perry stated an opinion, that because of Texas's method of becoming a state, she could legally leave.  As ,Texas was originally a separate nation which voluntarily entered the Union and seceded Oklahoma to the US.  Perry specifically stated he did not wish secession.  Therefore, do not infer he was in favor of it. Until 1860, textbooks at West Point taught that individual states could leave the Union.  

 

 

As to treaty obligations, Mexico will not extradite US citizens to the US if they face the death penalty or life without possibility of parole.  Definitely, a violation of international law, as both parties entered into a treaty specifically allowing such.   

So, their bad behavior justifies ours? Really?

Originally Posted by interventor1212:

Your first paragraph is a strawman, meant to divert from the thread at hand and defame Perry.  Rick Perry stated an opinion, that because of Texas's method of becoming a state, she could legally leave.  As ,Texas was originally a separate nation which voluntarily entered the Union and seceded Oklahoma to the US.  Perry specifically stated he did not wish secession.  Therefore, do not infer he was in favor of it. Until 1860, textbooks at West Point taught that individual states could leave the Union.  

 

 

Well, my home was on a spot where soldiers of the United States of America attacked a hill about 600 feet away where my Great Grandfather's house stood where soldiers of the Confederate States of America fought over this exact question. Does a state have the option of leaving the Union. (In fact there were two camels involved in the battle that had no opinion.)

As it turns out, the Union defeated the Confederates in that particular battle, and a couple of years later, the entire war. Turns out Perry is wrong, a state CANNON LEAVE THE UNION. PERIOD. 

It didn't work out well 150 years ago, but I'm sure Perry actually knows that. He is just playing to the poor dumb SOB's that have no idea of any history except what Fox tells them. If you actually believe Texas or any other state can leave the union again, you are probably missing quite a bit of good sense.

It appears there are a lot of you teabaggers that think our country should not honor its treaties, or it's debts. If that is your position, I got news for you. You are no patriot. Please leave our country, because we don't need a bunch of people who hate our country running around spouting this kind of stuff. 

Originally Posted by seeweed:

It appears there are a lot of you teabaggers that think our country should not honor its treaties, or it's debts. If that is your position, I got news for you. You are no patriot. Please leave our country, because we don't need a bunch of people who hate our country running around spouting this kind of stuff. 

To start with you keep associating the tea party movement with tea bags. The name of Tea Party was to in similitude to the great act of rebellion by the colonists against the Crown’s taxes on tea. There was no Tea Bags in that time. It is also associated to the Patriot phrase of, ”Don’t Tread on Me”. Which Means, us True Constitutional Patriots are fed up with you socialists and your precious World Order. The UN and you can no longer run Amuck with trashing the US’s Constitution. The Constitution is set up to let the States run their own affairs. The US Government is for protecting commerce , our borders (HA HA) and the common defense of our Country. It’s time our Federal Government and the rest of you socialists,( yes Jimbo this means you too), to keep within their Constitutional Boundaries. Let the States Govern their own affairs. Someone does such a brutal crime with so much proof deserves no reprieve. Thank God for Texas!

Mexican or not May He Burn in H*ll.

Skippy

Originally Posted by JimiHendrix:
Originally Posted by interventor1212:

Your first paragraph is a strawman, meant to divert from the thread at hand and defame Perry.  Rick Perry stated an opinion, that because of Texas's method of becoming a state, she could legally leave.  As ,Texas was originally a separate nation which voluntarily entered the Union and seceded Oklahoma to the US.  Perry specifically stated he did not wish secession.  Therefore, do not infer he was in favor of it. Until 1860, textbooks at West Point taught that individual states could leave the Union.  

 

 

As to treaty obligations, Mexico will not extradite US citizens to the US if they face the death penalty or life without possibility of parole.  Definitely, a violation of international law, as both parties entered into a treaty specifically allowing such.   

So, their bad behavior justifies ours? Really?

Of course, that is how displeasure is demonstrated.  Beats going to war!

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