Weekly Report - 09 June 2011 (WR-11-23)

MEXICO | Execution. On 6 June Humberto Leal García, a Mexican on death row in Texas, received new notification that he will be executed on 7 July. He is one of the 51 Mexicans who were refused consular access by the US authorities before going on trial. This puts the US in contravention of the Vienna convention which sets out the rights and duties of governments to the citizens of other countries. As a result, the International Court of Justice at The Hague issued an injunction that, theoretically, should prevent Leal García's execution. He was convicted of raping and then killing Adra Saveda in 1994 in Texas. If Leal García is executed he will be the second Mexican to be executed in disregard of the ICJ injunction. The US Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that Texas had a right to execute convicts that overrode the ICJ injunction.

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