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Old 07-23-2008, 09:19 PM
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Texas still plans to execute killer despite U.N. order:



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But international law expert Sarah Cleveland, a professor of human and constitutional rights at New York City's Columbia Law School, said if the U.S. fails to act on the world court order, other countries may follow suit.

"This can only come back to hurt U.S. citizens when they are detained abroad," she wrote in an e-mail. " ... When a global leader like the U.S. refuses to comply with its clear international legal obligations (and everyone agrees that this is a clear legal obligation), it undermines the willingness of other states to comply with their own obligations and it inspires them not to trust us to obey ours."
Sarah Cleveland, "professor of human and constitutional rights at New York City's Columbia Law School"

Exactly when did you think US Constitutional rights are applied on a world-wide basis? These folks are the new "UN-touchables"
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But what if that person did something that we would consider nominal, but their laws considered a capital offense?
If you are going to travel to a foreign country, know their laws first. If you follow that one key rule, then you won't have a problem, will you?
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Sovereignty's one of the key components of a state and to remove a states sovereignty is to strip it of it's nationhood. If Texas was to comply with this ridiculous mandate by the UN I would be most disappointed.
As would I! There are a lot of small, poor, backward third-world nations in the U. N. who would love to band together as a group to destroy the soverergnty of large, wealthy, modern first-world nations in the name of "fairness", just out of envy.
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