In 1994, a 16 year old Texas girl was found outside a San Antonio street-party naked and bludgeoned to death with a chunk of asphalt. A large stick was discovered sticking out of her lifeless teenage body after she was kidnapped, raped and murdered with pleasure by Humberto Leal.
Leal, 38, was brought to the U.S. illegally at the age of 2 and was found guilty of Adria Sauceda’s 1994 rape and death. Residing in the U.S. since he was a toddler, although a Mexican national, Leal could have contacted his diplomatic representatives for legal assistance.
Leal was one of 51 Mexican nationals on U.S death row who challenged the U.S to their failure of informing them of their diplomatic rights, and in 2004, The International Court of Justice sided with Mexico. Texas Governor Perry would therefore be violating international law by executing Humberto Leal.
Governor Perry received many appeals from diplomats, top judges, senior Military officers, the U.N., and President Obama. Arguments ranged from, “putting U.S. diplomatic relationships in jeopardy” to “affecting any American arrested abroad.” The White House sought the Supreme Court to rule in this matter and urged that Leal’s execution be put on hold until Congress could pass a NEW law regarding foreign nationals who stand trial for capital crimes without proper diplomatic representation. The White House sent a 30-page brief to the Supreme Court in which they outlined the problems of carrying out the Leal execution.
“We have no authority to stay an execution in light of an “appeal of the President”, presenting free ranging assertions of foreign policy consequences, when those assertions come unaccompanied by a persuasive legal claim.”
“It has now been seven years since the ICJ (International Court of Justice) ruling, making a stay based on the bare introduction of a bill in a single house of Congress even less justified.”
“We decline to follow the United States’ suggestion of granting a stay to allow Leal to bring a claim based on a hypothetical legislation when it cannot even bring itself to say that his attempt to his conviction has any prospect of success.”
“It is so ordered.” – Justice Scalia
Humm…what about terrorists (foreign nationals) that commit murders in this country? Would they then have had “rights” to diplomatic representation for legal assistance if the WH & the President had their way? Thanks to Gov. Perry for standing up for the principle of “justice for all”. Thanks Alli for shedding light on this type of liberal/ACLU/UN/globalist insanity to the OLS readers’ attention. Remember, “…moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero.