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Article: Mexico again sues United States in ICJ; ICJ directs United States to block Medellin execution; U.S. Supreme Court again denies relief; Texas executes Medellin.(Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law)
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- American Journal of International Law
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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The legal struggle over the fate of convicted murderer Jose Ernesto Medellin continued in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the U.S. executive branch, Congress, Texas courts, and the U.S. Supreme Court during the summer of 2008. Efforts to defer Medellin's execution pending further review of his Vienna Convention claim were unavailing. He was executed by the State of Texas in early August. (1)
Medellin was one of about fifty Mexican nationals cited in Avena (Mexico v. United States) (2) before the ICJ as having been sentenced to death by U.S. courts without receiving timely notice of the right to notify Mexican consular officials pursuant to the Vienna ...