World Court Orders USA to Halt Execution of Rapist-Murderer Jose Medellin

Jose Medellin, a citizen of Mexico, raped and murdered Elizabeth Pena (16) and Jennifer Ertman (15) in Houston in 1993. He is scheduled to be executed on August 5.

Now the World Court, in direct affront to the sovereignty of the United States, has ordered the USA to halt the execution on an absurd technicality:

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The World Court ordered the United States on Wednesday to do all it could to halt the imminent executions of five Mexicans until the court makes a final judgment in a dispute over suspects' rights.

The row, which has strained relations between the neighbors, centers on the fact that the United States failed to inform 51 of its citizens sentenced to die in U.S. jails of their right to consular assistance.
One of the five Mexicans on death row, Jose Medellin, is due to die on August 5 in Texas.

In 2004, the World Court ruled in favor of Mexico, finding the United States had violated international law, and ordered it to review the 51 cases to see whether the lack of consular assistance had prejudiced the outcome of their trials.

A year later, U.S. President George W. Bush ordered Texas to review Medellin's case but the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in March that Bush had no authority to do so, leading Texas to schedule Medellin's execution for August.

"The court indicates that the United States of America shall take all measures necessary to ensure that five Mexican nationals are not executed pending its final judgment," Judge Rosalyn Higgins said.

This is ridiculous. Had Medellin asked to contact the Mexican embassy in the USA, he would undoubtedly been allowed to do so. This dirtbag confessed to his crimes back in 1993. He has been given a proper trial, attorneys paid for by the taxpayers of Texas, and numerous appeals for 15 years.

The state of Texas should ignore those idiots at the world court and send Medellin to his reward.