Summary
The Court concluded that in all but one instance, the United States had breached its obligations to inform Mexicans on death row of their right to consular notification. Under Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations--a treaty signed and ratified by the United States decades ago--authorities must inform "without delay" foreign nationals under arrest of their right to contact their consulate or embassy.
That may sound like a procedural nicety, but it's the same right that Americans routinely expect if they are arrested and detained in a foreign country. And it's a right that has a particular significance with respect to Mexico, which in recent years has established a remarkably effective legal assistance program on behalf of its citizens facing capital punishment in the United States. In 2003, the ICJ issued provisional measures requiring the United States to "take all measures necessary" to ensure that three Mexican nationals considered at the most immediate risk of execution were not put to death pending final judgment in the case.See the full content of this document
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Irrefutable Evidence
There's never anything quite as sobering as having to see yourself the way the rest of the world sees you. You take your photographs to be developed and there they are: warts, wattl...
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