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From UK's The Independent

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David Usborne writes, "The Big Question: Why is the United States still imposing the death penalty?" from New York.  Here's an excerpt: What America does in its own prisons is its own business, most of the time.   That was not true on Tuesday night, however, when a lethal injection was   administered to a Mexican national in Huntsville prison, Texas, convicted in   a case of gang rape and strangulation of two teenage girls in Houston 15   years ago. The death of Jose Medellin brought an instant diplomatic protest from Mexico,   which had demanded that he and 50 other Mexicans on death row in America be   allowed consular access, as required by a treaty to which the US is a   signatory...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on August 07, 2008 (boomark / email).