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Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Mexican National Executed

Last night a Mexican national was executed in Texas. This was the right thing to do as he was a murderous rapist who killed a 14 and 15 year old after a gang initiation when he was 18 years old. He claimed 4 years after he was tried and convicted that he was not granted his right to consult the Mexican consulate. There are at least 50 other cases like this in the United States. The World Court ordered that those cases should be reviewed again. The Texas case had several reviews and found that he did not ask for the service and waiting until 4 years after his conviction to bring this up was to long. The Supreme Court (thank heavens for Bush) ruled that the President and the Legislature could not interfere with the individual states thereby telling the World Court to go to the devil's home. This would be one of the best decision the Supreme Court has issued in years. This Mexican had lived in this country since he was 3 years old, learned English and was educated yet he still went the gang route - he made the choice that night to rape, torture and kill those girls, I have no sympathy for him. The family of the girls finally have some closure for that we should be grateful.

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