TEXAS, WE'LL KILL YOU BACK....
Posted on 08/05/2008 7:41:59 PM PDT by Fudd Fan
After backing the sovereignty of the state of Texas and rejecting international meddling, the US Supreme Court’s consideration of a last-ditch appeal has put illegal alien rapist/double murderer Jose Medellin’s scheduled execution tonight on hold.
Stay tuned for late-breaking developments.
(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
Dead now per local Houston news at 10:00pm
Hope so. Best possible news.
Too late to get upset now, the southwest already belongs to Mexico.
“They have decided 5-4 to go with the execution.”
TEXAS, WE'LL KILL YOU BACK....
The usual Pieces of Crap
Maybe God will take pity on his soul.
HUNTSVILLE — The state of Texas defied an international court tonight and executed Jose Medellin for raping and murdering two teenage girls 15 years ago.
About a half-hour earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court had rejected a last-minute appeal to stay the execution, originally scheduled for 6 p.m.
Medellin was pronounced dead at 9:57 p.m., nine minutes after the lethal dose was administered.
As the court deliberated earlier, opposing groups of protesters gathered outside the death house. When the prison clock chimed six, a group of U.S. Border Watch members and others broke into cheers, thinking the execution had occurred.
Medellin is one of gang members condemned for the June 1993 gang rape and murder of Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Pena, 16, in T.C. Jester Park on Houston’s northwest side.
The girls were raped and strangled with a belt and shoelace after they stumbled into a drunken gang initiation rite while cutting through the park to get home before their curfew.
Elaine Jackson of Houston, who identified herself as a friend of the Pena family, was among those supporting the execution.
“The girls didn’t get a second chance, why should he?” she demanded. “Why should he keep on breathing?”
On the other side of the street, Nancy Bailey was among those opposing the execution. Putting Medellin to death, she said, would flout the nation’s treaty commitments and would endanger Americans arrested abroad.
Medellin, who granted few interviews while on death row, told a Mexican news reporter that he had 15 years in prison to compose his emotions. On Monday and Tuesday, he visited with his parents, whom he had not seen since 2001.
Prison spokeswoman Michelle Lyons said the parents were barred from the prison after they were overheard plotting an escape for Medellin. Also Tuesday, Medellin spoke by telephone to his younger brother, Venacio, who is serving a 40-year sentence in connection with the crime.
Jose Medellin is in a holding cell near execution chamber.
Six gang members were convicted of the killings. Derrick O’Brien was executed in July 2006. Gang leader Peter Cantu remains on death row. Two others, who were 17 at the time of the crime, had their death sentences commuted to life in prison. The younger Medellin, who was a juvenile, was sentenced to a 40-year prison term.
Ertman and Pena were raped and strangled after they stumbled into a drunken gang initiation rite while cutting through the park in order to get home before a curfew.
For days after the murders, police and the girls’ parents frantically searched for the missing teens. Four days after the crime, a tip from a gang member’s brother led authorities to the bodies, then to the suspects.
Within three hours of his arrest, Medellin admitted his role in the gruesome murders, appalling authorities with his boastful, callous description of the night’s events.
Medellin’s case created international controversy when the United Nations’ world court determined Texas had violated the killer’s rights under the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations by denying him access to the Mexican consulate.
In 2004, the world court ordered a hearing be held to determine if the treaty violation damaged the killer’s defense. In July, it ordered that a stay be granted.
President Bush and other federal officials urged Texas to grant the hearing, but Texas officials adamantly refused.
Is Texas cool or what? I love it here. You kill one of us, we kill you back.
Thanks for the clarification.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
They need to revive him and then kill him again.
This photo released by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice
shows death row inmate Jose Medellin who is set for execution at the
Texas Prison in Huntsville, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008. Medellin, now 33,
was one of six teenagers arrested and charged with the gang rape and
murders of Elizabeth Pena, 16, and Jennifer Ertman, 14. The two Houston
girls, returning from a friend's house, took a shortcut home
along some railroad tracks and stumbled on a group of teenagers drinking
beer after initiating a new gang member. The scheduled execution of Medellin
has attracted international attention after the International Court of Justice,
also known as the World Court, said the Mexican-born Medellin and some 50
other Mexicans on death rows around the nation should have new hearings
in U.S. courts to determine whether a 1963 treaty was violated with their
arrests. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice, File)
Take that,Mexican government! Take that,International "Court of Justice"!
Texas has scheduled 5 more ti die in the next 4 weeks.
So, now the MSM refers to murderous illegal aliens as expats ('...halt MEXICAN'S execution') as if they were here on holiday, not even bothering with the BS 'undocumented immigrant'.
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