World Court: U.S. execution broke global law | SCOTUSblog

SCOTUSBlog wrote World Court: U.S. execution broke global law.

"The International Court of Justice ruled unanimously on Monday that the U.S. government violated a duty under international law by failing to stop Texas from excuting a Mexican national last summer.  The Court located at The Hague in The Netherlands, however, seemed to absolve the U.S. Supreme Court of any specific violation even though it refused to block that execution"

"On Aug. 5, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stop Texas from carrying out the execution of Mexican Jose Ernesto Medellin for a murder in that state, and he died in Texas’s death chamber that night. Earlier, the Court had ruled that a 2004 World Court ruling that the U.S. had lost in the case of Medellin and 50 other Mexican nationals was not binding on Texas or on the federal government That 2004 decision required the U.S. to take steps to assure that foreign nationals facing execution had a chance to show that their cases were harmed because they were denied access to a diplomat from their own country."