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Texas Executes Another Foreign National

HeadlineAug 08, 2008

Texas has executed a Honduran man convicted of killing his former boss and wounding a co-worker. Heliberto Chi is the second foreign national put to death in Texas this week. Mexican national José Medellín was put to death on Tuesday on a conviction of raping and murdering two teenage girls. Both Mexico and Honduras argued the two were denied the protections of the Vienna Convention, which calls for people arrested to have access to their home country’s consular officials. The executions came despite a World Court ruling calling on the US to grant foreign nationals new hearings in US courts.

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