Texas: Medellin set to die Tuesday for Ertman-Peña killings
The Houston Chronicle has this report:
“Texas. It’s like a whole other country.”
Coined to promote tourism, that wry verbal wink at the state’s mythic image has assumed a literal meaning as Texas finds itself in defiance of the United Nations, the Organization of American States and national leaders in its planned Tuesday execution of Mexican citizen Jose Medellin.
Unless the U.S. Supreme Court or Gov. Rick Perry acts in his favor, Medellin, 33, will die for the 1993 rape-strangulation of two teenage Houston girls, Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Peña.
There is extensive media coverage on this issue.
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From what I’ve heard, they are trying to say that this guy who’s been in America since the age of three should have been allowed to appeal to the Mexican government. I guess the two teenagers he helped kill don’t matter. Very sad.