Posted on 08/05/2008 7:08:19 AM PDT by NoKoolAidforMe
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — Texas officials cleared the way Monday for the execution of Jose Medellin, one of 51 Mexican nationals on U.S. death row, for his role with five other members of a Houston gang in the 1993 murder and rape of two teenage girls.
The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles on Monday rejected Medellin's request for a reprieve. Medellin, 33, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. CDT today.
The decision violates the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, according to the International Court of Justice. President Bush ordered Texas to comply with that decision, but the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the treaty couldn't dictate state court actions.
For more background on this story.......
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5922356.html
I'm skeptical about them waiting until the burial...
This stinking smear of slime actually has a website.
http://www.ccadp.org/josemedellin.htm
Good riddance, Jose.
That ol' Woodford's gonna taste especially good tonight :)
“The world court don’t mean diddly,” he said. “This business belongs in the state of Texas. The people of the state of Texas support the execution. We thank them. The rest of them can go to h-ll.”
Well, I believe that boy’s a Texan. God bless that family for having to wait so long to see justice served.
Colonel, Texan.
The only thing these girls did wrong was take a short cut home through the woods. This gang of monsters was in the woods doing who knows what, probably taking drugs. The sooner this guy is dead the better. Go TDC!
You have very good taste in whiskey. I think I may do the same to celebrate Texan independence.
...and I shall honor Texas tonight with a bit of Rare Breed and a nice cigar.
Woodford, Elijah Craig and Elmer T. Lee are my go-to bourbons. Everyone’s taste is different, those are just the one’s I’ve settled on. I do have a Montecristo in the humidor but am saving it for my birthday next month. I smoked one on Sunday and have only one left. I’ll have to pass on the cigar tonight. Oh, well...
Hasta luego, jose. In the words of a seldom used malediction here in my parts, "I hope you die o' the screamin', bleedin' sh!ts."
ROFLMAO
Now that you mention it, I’ve got some Booker Noe at about 121 Proof in my cabinet. I may pass on the Rare Breed and imbibe in a bit of that.
PS - Elijah Craig is NICE stuff.
I have never tried Woodford or Elmer T.
Which is fine, now I have a goal for the rest of the summer!!
Poor baby!!!!
I don't enjoy the heavy stuff very well. Woodford and Elijah are about it for me. But then again, Maker's Mark is like water to me...
These convictions were of Texas law, in the Texas Court system, they don't implicate any powers of the federal government. (which is why the Supreme Court held that US treaty obligations were of no avail to this miscreant).
And they don’t let former governors issue pardons.
Good.
This barbarian must die. I don't care what country he came from.
Which is fine, now I have a goal for the rest of the summer!!
Go for it! Zum Wohl!.
Go, Texas!
Fling the floodgates to hell wide open, beginning today at 6:00!
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