U.S. Breaks International Law By Executing Mexican National

[SWTXBelle]

Had he identified as a Mexican national upon his arrest, chances are he WOULD have been advised he could contact his consul.

The moral of the story is - don't lie about your citizenship.

And we've been through this before - 3 years ago a Mexican national in a similar situation. was executed To the best of my knowledge, we've not had an increase in the number of American citizens who kill citizens in other countries (no one is disputing whether or not Garcia did the heinous crime) and then lie about their citizenship, resulting in their not being allowed consular access and then being executed.

[AOII Angel]

The problem is, despite as heinous as this guy was, other countries won't necessarily look at all the specifics of his case before refusing consular assistance to Americans arrested in their jurisdictions. We are already on shaky diplomatic grounds with Mexico, and several world countries see us as bullies. We can argue the specifics all we want, but many of these countries have used situations like this to ignore our pleas. Would it really have hurt to hold off killing him to let him have a hearing with his Mexican consul? If you had the evidence to convict him and sentence him to death, it should be a formality.