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The US breached international law when the state of Texas executed a Mexican citizen convicted of raping and killing an American girl, the UN's senior human rights official has said.
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He was not told he could have access to Mexican consular officials, in violation of the Vienna Convention.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14089246
Your feelings on the death penalty are irrelevant. Your opinion on his guilt or innocence are irrelevant. Your shock and horror at his crime is irrelevant. Your sympathy or lack of it towards Leal is irrelevant.
What is relevant is the precedent that this sets worldwide. The danger it puts U.S. citizens everywhere in. By taking away an internationally recognized right, this state in it's pissing match with the rest of the world in a short sighted attempt to show everyone that "You can't tell Texas what to do!" has jeopardized the rights of Americans everywhere. How stupid.
The reciprocity of international law apparently means diddly to Governor Goodhair and his cronies. Perhaps he should go pray about it.