Once again President Obama, Hillary Clinton’s State Department and Eric Holder’s Justice Department are doing everything they can to subordinate U.S. laws and Texas state laws to a foreign treaty. Humberto Leal, age 36 is a Mexican citizen who has been living in U.S. (illegally?) since he was 2 years old. Leal was convicted in Texas in 1994 of the brutal rape and murder of 16 year old Andrea Sauceda and sentenced to death. The facts of the case are not in dispute and the details of the crime are atrocious and gruesome. Leal is scheduled to be executed tonight after 6:00 PM. However, Obama, Clinton and Holder are pursuing a stay of execution under the 1963 U.N. enforced Treaty of Vienna. That treaty provides that foreign nationals arrested in foreign countries be given access to their consulates. Congress had 3 years within which to pass a bill which would enforce the treaty but that bill was never passed. Leal was not given the opportunity to contact the Mexican Consulate after his arrest and the Regime maintains that omission should obviate the death penalty.
Last Friday, the Obama administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stop Texas from executing Leal, asking the court to delay the execution for up to six months to give Congress time to consider legislation that would enforce the U.N. treaty.
Congress reportedly had three years to pass the bill but did not. Hence, it is impossible to pass a bill that would spare Leal unless a stay is ordered.
One other possible way Leal may avoid the execution is if Texas Gov. Rick Perry grants a 30-day stay. However, a spokeswoman from his office said he has yet to make a decision on the case.
Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton say if Texas disregards the treaty, it may have consequences for American citizens arrested abroad.
But the state of Texas appears to bristle at the idea of a foreign body affecting judgments in the state, even though President George W. Bush endorsed the U.N. ruling.
“Texas is not bound by a foreign court’s ruling,” Katherine Cesinger, press secretary for Gov. Perry’s office, said in a statement. “The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that the treaty was not binding on the states and that the president does not have the authority to order states to review cases of the then 51 foreign nationals on death row in the U.S.”
UPDATE: Humberto Leal was executed in Huntsville, Texas at 6:21 CDST. He was the despicable murderer and rapist of a 16 year old child. I saw a picture of Andrea Sauceda for the first time tonight and she was a beautiful girl. Thank you Governor Rick Perry for doing your job and not being intimidated by the Obama Regime. The important story here is not the execution of a degenerate who got what he deserved (although Humberto might disagree with that sentiment). Perverts like him die on the streets and in our prisons every day. The real story is that Barak Obama, Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder actively sought to subordinate the laws and sovereignty of the United States and the State of Texas to the authority of a foreign power, namely the United Nations. That is the issue; that should be the focus of the discussion.
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