Why it’s time for Texas to carry out the death sentence on Jose Medellin
A nice summary from Andrew McCarthy* at HumanEvents on why President Bush is wrong to intercede in the Medellin v. Texas death penalty case (which I’ve been covering since 2005).
At bottom, the case is about the freedom of Texans to govern themselves, to put sadistic murderers to death if that is what they choose democratically to do, as long as they adhere to American constitutional procedures in carrying out that policy choice. Sure, it offends Mexicans, Europeans, international law professors, and a motley collection of jurists who see themselves as a supra-sovereign tribunal. But that is not a basis for the President to interfere.
The administration has made a great show of promoting democracy. Democracy, however, begins at home.
Read the whole thing.
*Mr. McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor, directs the Center for Law & Counterterrorism at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
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Of course we have to wait for the Supremes to finish their job, but I believe States Rights will prevail.
Then this murdering molester can be removed from our sphere.