“What we do to non-Americans in our country we can reasonably expect to be done unto Americans in other countries.”
If an American goes to Mexico and does the same thing to a Mexican girl, go ahead and string him up. I’ll be fine with it.
There is no question he deserves execution.
There is also no question we should implement the obligations of the treaties we sign.
I find it interesting how we’re supposed to treat “a Mexican raised in Texas” no differently from an American citizen, right up to the point where his being a Mexican citizen provides him sort of special advantage.
Oh, the poor Mexican man! Perhaps he didn’t have the greatest lawyer!
What about the poor teenager murdered by this guy?
Nobody seems to think he’s innocent.
PULL THE PLUG!
He is gonna die now, because Perry, like Clinton, will ensure that “soft on murderers” aint’ gonna haunt him.
So let me see if I understand this correctly. The idiots at this paper want foreigners to come to the US but not be subject to our laws?
Bullsh-t if he murdered someone string him up, then talk about international relations.
Idiot newspaper.
Of course Americans committing crimes in other countries are subject to their laws. No country, ever, has tolerated people coming and acting like animals just because they’re foreign. (Exception: diplomatic immunity, which is a whole nother can of worms.)
I really could care less about where this murderer was born. Perhaps if his country of birth would reinstate the death penalty, they could start controlling that little problem of hundreds of innocent citizens being murdered by the drug cartels every year. Juarez, from all I hear, is a war zone.
I could agree to let this scumbag spend the rest of his life in prison on one condition:
The entire editorial board of the Austin (Hanoi in the Hill Country) unAmerican Stasi hop up on a gurney and take the needle for him.
Hey, it's a start....
“The key issue in this case at this point is not whether Leal committed the crime.”
I do not understand this statement. If Leal did not commit the crime then none of this would be an issue. The paper makes this comment as if it is a fact. But their statement is only an opinion. The one and only fact is that a man murdered a person and now must pay the penalty for his crime. A Texas court with a jury of his peers determined his guilt and set his punishment. I really don’t this that is all that hard of a concept to grasp.
Quoting Ron White “If you kill somebody in Texas, we’ll kill you back.”
Don’t know why that statement is so misunderstood.
I didn't see it mentioned in the article. Was he another undocumented immigrant just committing the murders Americans won't do?
So, spare the thug’s life, and release him into the custody of this writer.