I first wrote about the Jose Ernesto Medellin back in on March 29th, 2005.
Medellin (who — feign surprise — is in our country illegally) is one of the six subhuman pieces of shit who raped, beat, and then strangled to death two Texas teenagers (Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Pena,16) back in 1993.
On July 10, 2006 the first of these animals, Sean Derrick O’Brien, was put to death for his role in these gruesome murders.
However, on March 1, 2005, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the Constitution forbids the execution of killers who were under 18 when they committed their crimes. Two of those killers from that night — Efrain Perez and Raul Villarreal — were spared because of that decision.
President Bush wanted to enforce a decision by the International Court of Justice that found the convictions of Medellin and 50 other Mexican-born prisoners violated their rights to legal help as outlined in the 1963 Vienna Convention.
Texas argued strenuously that neither the international court nor President Bush, his Texas ties notwithstanding, has any say in Medellin’s case.
Well, thankfully, today, the SCOTUS decided with Texas (h/t Michelle Malkin):
President Bush overstepped his authority when he ordered a Texas court to grant a new hearing to a Mexican on death row for rape and murder, the Supreme Court said Tuesday.
In a case that mixes presidential power, international relations and the death penalty, the court sided with Texas 6-3.
Bush was in the unusual position of siding with death row prisoner Jose Ernesto Medellin, a Mexican citizen whom police prevented from consulting with Mexican diplomats, as provided by international treaty.
An international court ruled in 2004 that the convictions of Medellin and 50 other Mexicans on death row around the United States violated the 1963 Vienna Convention, which provides that people arrested abroad should have access to their home country’s consular officials. The International Court of Justice, also known as the world court, said the Mexican prisoners should have new court hearings to determine whether the violation affected their cases.
Bush, who oversaw 152 executions as Texas governor, disagreed with the decision. But he said it must be carried out by state courts because the United States had agreed to abide by the world court’s rulings in such cases. The administration argued that the president’s declaration is reason enough for Texas to grant Medellin a new hearing.
Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, disagreed. Roberts said the international court decision cannot be forced upon the states.
The president may not “establish binding rules of decision that pre-empt contrary state law,”Âť Roberts said.
This is outstanding news.
But Liberals have to be pretty conflicted by this verdict — on one hand, SCOTUS just reigned in the self-claimed powers of President Bush. On the other hand, it opens the doors to a much more immediate execution for Medellin.
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Oh, thank God! The “International Court of Justice” is a total joke.
Calling Mr. Jose Medellin,
Would you please step into the TDCJ execution express lane!
Your worthless time on this earth is just about up!
For the first time in my adult life, I actually think I can be confident in SCOTUS to be correct and reasonable.
Now if they will get that whole “cruel and unusual” nonsense right, we can resume dispensing justice to those who have forfeited their right to exist within the ranks of civilized society.
This story has been underreported. If the decision had gone the other way, they would have interrupted broadcasts to report it.
If Bush did little else right while in office, at least he picked two good justices.
[Editor --- Amen to that. Which is also the most important reason --- no matter how distasteful you find him --- that we elect Sen. John McCain as our next President.]
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You may remember the case of Jose Ernesto Medellin from back in October when President Bush came out in favor of this member of the Latino gang the Black and Whites, when Mexico demanded a retrial in his death penalty……
Rape is wrong, murder is wrong, but sometimes people make choices that are wrong without being bad. I feel an incredible amount of sympathy for the fathers and mothers of the two girls murdered; however, we should not value human life so little that we are willing to kill when someone else kills. Killing Medellin must have a benefit on society to be acceptable, otherwise it is nothing more than murder born in vengeance, and from the tone of the comments on this blog it seems to me that no one cares about why we’re killing him, only that he gets killed. If each of you are so quick to take up the knife and end his life without thinking of the consequences it will have on our society, then you aren’t much different from him.
Thuglover: We are executing him because we care about the two young girls he and his gang viciously raped, sodomized, tortured, and murdered. Additionally, according to roughly a dozen recent studies, executions save lives. For each inmate put to death, the studies say, 3 to 18 murders are prevented. And again, a murderer executed does not go on to murder prison employees, escape to murder people outside the prison, doesn’t greenlight murders outside the prison. It is you who doesn’t care about saving INNOCENT lives.
Medellin now has a date: 8/5/08.
The anti-dp crowd are now trying to get executions in Texas put on hold until the Court of Criminal Appeals decides the challenge to LI by Heliberto Chi. Hopefully, no court will issue stays since there is no way Chi will ultimately win.
Seems like Bush is always jumping in helping these people. If anything happened to his two girls he would have these borders closed in a new york minute and have the army guarding the fence.
The scumpals have reached a new low. They are bashing the fathers of Jennifer and Elizabeth and the girls themselves. When does Cantu get a date? It can’t be soon enough.
All of the scumpals of these five thugs should read the book about this case , True Murder by Corey Mitchell.
All five of these pieces of garbage were hoodlums in their youth , it was just a matter of time before they committed murder , if you read the book , it is shocking to see how bad they were. O’Brien and Cantu murdered Patricia Lopez , a mother of two , before they killed Jennifer and Elizabeth. It is terrible what they did to those two girls , these guys are not human , they deserve everything they have coming to them.
If the scumpals read the book and still support these pieces of shit , then they to are not human.
To bash the father’s and the girls shows you how little they care about what happened , I only hope something like this never happens to them , then they would understand the father’s anger. What happened to their little girls was absolutely horrific.
Not according to the thuglovers. Being on death row for 15 years is worse than being raped – orally, vaginally, and anally, pissed on kicked, jumped on, having your jaw, facial bones, and collar bone broken, and slowly strangled to death. I kid you not. If there is ever a copy cat murder, banshee over on ccrap is the first person the police should investigate.
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Who cares where your born. A child rapist/murderer is a child rapist/murderer.
He was all tough guy when he killed these girls, well, Jose, be a man for the first time in your life and accept your punishment.
One less scum breathing our air.. Texas has executed him.