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  • Execution set for today for Mexican man (Illegal alien murderer)

    08/05/2008 7:08:19 AM PDT · by NoKoolAidforMe · 67 replies · 78+ views
    Denver Post ^ | 08-05-08 | Denver Post Wire Report
    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,...