Justice has been hard to come by for murdered young girls and Adria Sauceda is no exception.
Sauceda, 16, was brutally raped, murdered with a piece of asphalt and left naked on a rural road by Mexican national Humberto Leal Garcia Jr. 38 in San Antonio on May 24, 1994. Mr. Garcia, who has been in the US since age 2 is scheduled for execution on Thursday.
But wait! Poor Leal didn't have contact with his governments' representatives as dictated by the U.N.'s Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. Tuesday the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole's 4-1 rejection of Leal's bid for a 180-day reprieve would allow Thursday's execution of Leal to go forward.
Leal has options Sauceda never got. Governor Rick Perry could grant him a 30 day reprieve and the Supreme Court can consider a stay of execution requested by the Obama administration. This would allow Congress time to act on a bill introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, that would provide for federal review of capital cases involving foreigners denied consulate contact.
Once again liberals are more concerned with the international community, diplomatic and military representatives who warn about the effect this would have on Americans abroad involved in criminal cases than justice for a young woman whose rape and murder is an unspeakable affront to an innocent person's life and dignity.
As our leaders review our visa process, one important element should be to warn visitors and potential immigrants of the consequences that could befall them if they dare to inflict such horrific crimes on any American citizen. This would be an example of American exceptionalism, coming down on the side of the lives of citizens over the international "rights" of wanton criminals.
To a writer research is important to create a character .. so i studied to write some and I found that a serial killer who is sick of its mind is conscious of what it did and at the same time feels pleasure and cannot feel guilty , it can’t be regretted of what it did and still want to do even being in prison at one step of death no matter if is natural death or death penalty in that case it defense can allege that it is sick of its mind. But ..i studied a several killers before they passed its death penalty, They regretted almost all, they showed repentance almost during all its prison penalty till its death penalty, if they were sick of its mind referring that if they were unable mentally at the moment of their crimes they wouldn’t show after regret for their crimes even being conscious mentally at that moment or not also not even the killer wants to plead for its own life. Not to have regrets after a crime and also not plead for its life means to have a not normal mentally condition , the defense can have a support in that case to plead just for life prison. For a sicked mind killer . This killer Humberto Leal Jr. is not sick of its mind not only because he was conscious of its crime when he did it or after it, and because he showed a real or fake regret ,It’s because he pleaded for his life and he is still waiting till the last minute to be released of his death penalty, so he is not sick of his mind and he never was. I don’t know if he could be a serial killer, but is demonstrated that he is a killer.. a murderer.He killed to the little girl. He is a killer.
By the way there’s a little boy who killed a young lady..Jordan Brown.. he is saying that doesn’t remember anything to plead just for a mental institution penalty or not death penalty, but ..He is not showing any regret .. and it’s not only to support that he’s saying that he can’t remember anything, It’s because he couldn’t feel guilty not even because he’s not saying that he’s sorry, that could let him show guilty, so he’s right of his mind. That boy is so cold hearted because he can’t not even show sorry for the painful situation of the young woman parents they had and still have with their daughter’s death even if is not still demonstrated that he is the murderer of their daughter. He is a cold hearted conscious and right of its mind killer for the crime scene proofs and for all what I said of him here.
Posted by: OhHoneyHoney | July 06, 2011 at 03:32 PM
How pathetic that the writer of this entry simply chalks this request up to "liberals" being "more concerned with the international community than with justice." Does that mean that conservatives are not concerned with our image around the world?
Oh wait, we're "exceptional"...we don't have to worry about that stuff at all...screw the rest of the world...and the treaties we have with them...and the agreements in international organizations.
It's not like the Obama administration is asking to set this guy free or send him home unpunished. He's going to fry like the pig that he is. However, we do have laws, and it hurts our own democracy when we selectively ignore them. And yes, international laws pertain to us when we are voluntary members of the group that comes up with them.
As for "justice for Adria Sauceda," she'll get it. It's already taken 16 years. What are you afraid is going to happen in the next 6 months? He's going to die of a heart attack and deprive us of the gory pleasure of watching his eyes bulge out in the electric chair?
A few month delay isn't depriving anyone of justice (any more than the 16 years it took to get to this point). Please don't conjure up partisan outrage where it isn't needed.
Posted by: Jason | July 07, 2011 at 04:47 AM