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Texas to execute five Mexicans despite stay ordered by International Criminal Court

http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_27637.shtml

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Texas will go ahead with the execution of five Mexicans ignoring a stay ordered by the International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC).

Spokesperson for Governor Rick Perry, Robert Black, stated, "Nothing is going to change because of what a foreign court says. The US Supreme Court has ruled that Texas is not subject to a foreign court."

In March the Supreme Court also ruled that not even the president could ask Texas to re-examine the cases of the 51 Mexicans condemned to death in Texas and on death row, in defiance of an earlier ruling by the ICC in 2004.

Texas Governor Perry is breaking ex Governor George W. Bush's record of allowing 152 executions during his mandate. Perry has reached 168 with time to spare.