Coalition Seeks Clemency for Mexican Man on Texas Death Row

Thr BLT: The Blog of Legal Times reports on an interesting death penalty case.  With the backing of former judges, prosecutors and diplomats from across the country, lawyers are asking Texas Governor Rick Perry to delay the upcoming July 7 execution of Humberto Leal Garcia. “The case echoes the dispute involved in the 2008 Supreme Court decision in Medellin v. Texas, and also implicates pending action in Congress. Leal is a Mexican national arrested in 1994 on suspicion of murder who was never told that he had a right under an international treaty to contact the Mexican consulate for legal assistance. It was not until he was on death row that a fellow inmate gave him the address of the Mexican consulate.”