U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Mexican Death Row Inmate’s Appeal

On April 30, 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Medellin v. Texas, agreeing to consider whether the Bush administration has the authority to direct a state court to comply with a ruling from the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The petitioner, Medellin, is a Mexican national who was sentenced to death for participating in the brutal gang rape and murder of two teenage girls in a Houston park on June 23, 1993 ... [more]