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UN Courts Wants Executions Halted

Um, yeah… whatever.

The US has been advised not to execute five Mexican nationals on death row by the International Court of Justice.

The ICJ - the UN’s highest court - had previously ruled that the men had been denied the right to help from their consulate after their arrests.

A 2005 ruling by President George W Bush that the cases should be reviewed was overturned by the US Supreme Court. But the Hague-based court told the US it should not execute the men before it made its final judgement.

In a majority ruling, the ICJ said the US should “take all measures necessary to ensure (they) are not executed pending judgment… unless and until these five Mexican nationals receive review and reconsideration (of their sentences)”.

We’ll stick with our own courts, mmmmmkay?

Posted by Owen at 2003 hrs
Foreign Affairs + Law

1. Sovereignty?  Overrated.  Very twentieth-century.  Got to line up for that UN mojo.  It’s important that they like us more.

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2. Filled under - “Who goes a rip!”

   That Bush even mentioned them by name was too much.

   Next.

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