Thursday, July 07, 2011

Texas Stands Up To Anti-Death Penalty Loons

The state of Texas carried out a death sentence tonight on convicted rapist and killer Humberto Leal. And yet there is more than the usual outrage on the left and some of those pushing for so-called comprehensive immigration "reform".
You see, Mr. Leal was an illegal alien when he committed the brutal rape and murder of Adria Sauceda in 1994. Mr. Leal was an infant when his family entered the United States illegally. While the now dead Mr. Leal was not at fault for what his parents did, mystically he wanted to use that to his advantage to avoid the needle.
Mr. Leal claims that because he was, get this, a Mexican national, he should have been advised that he could contact the nearest Mexican consulate and get legal advise.
As if American lawyers are not good enough for the cretin, Leal.
Let me note that Mr. Leal not only brutally raped Miss Sauceda but bludgeoned her to death.
And a jury, unlike 12 people in Florida recently, rightly convicted Mr. Leal of the crimes and he was sentenced to death under Texas law.
But the Dear Leader, President Obama and the former president, George W. Bush led the charge to stop the execution of Mr. Leal.
First, why you may ask?
Because Mr Leal was a Mexican national, again here in the United States illegally. And according to a treaty signed in 1964 that assures that foreign nationals must be told by the nation they are arrested in that they have a right to contact their embassy and or consulate.
It is the basis of the years of appeals that have prevented, until tonight, justice from being carried out.
Second, the arguments by the Dear Leader, President Obama and Mr. Bush are that this puts the lives of American citizens at risk in foreign lands if they are not told they have a right to contact the embassy and or consulate.
Third, and this I think is very important, is that Mexico does not have the death penalty. And they will not extradite American citizens that flee to their nation unless they are assured that said criminal will not be sentenced to death.
That is rich. I would like to ask how many Mexican citizens and or foreigners in Mexican jails die in the jails of unnatural causes? The Mexican government may not have the legal mechanics of a death penalty, but believe me, certain people meet the fate of the Grim Reaper in a Mexican jail.
Also, why does Mexico have any reason to interfere in American jurisprudence? And given aid and comfort by a sitting and former president?
Each nation must respect each other's laws. Mexico may not like that many American states have the death penalty, but it is well within those state laws and under the United States constitution. Just as we should respect that Mexico does not have the death penalty. Without that mutual respect, then national, state and local laws are meaningless.
And let us not forget the victim in this carnage, Adria Sauceda.
This is an account of Miss Sauceda's final hours.
Before you say, well she was drunk and putting out, she did not deserve to die this horrible death. And the law of the state of Texas was followed, like it or not.
Note that Miss Sauceda is Hispanic herself. So before one cries raaaaacism, that was nowhere near this case.
It was about a man that sexually assaulted then killed an teenage girl. A girl that did not get to live her whole life as Mr. Leal has for the past 16 years. Granted, they have been in a jail cell, but he was alive until 7:21pm, Texas time, this evening.
A couple of side notes.
In one of the most disgusting last-ditch efforts to thwart justice, the appeals lawyers came up with the novel reason Mr. Leal was so screwed-up in the head in the first place.
The now ace-in-the-hole.
The priest at his church molested him when he was a tike. This website has the story on this novel attempt to stop an execution.
As noted, it is something that could have come up in trial but did not. Must have been delayed memory syndrome. Due to the fact that Mr. Leal was a raging drunk.
This side note is toward Mr. Bush.
This is the man that ran as president as tough on crime. He faced a similar situation when faced with the execution of one Karla Faye Tucker.
Miss Tucker was convicted of murder in 1984 and sentenced to death. While in prison, Miss Tucker became a Christian and a model prisoner. Many people wanted to spare her life including Newt Gingrich and televangelist Pat Robertson and even then Pope John Paul II. But this was to no avail. And then Gov. Bush did nothing to stop the execution. In fact, according to now Fox News contributor Tucker Carlson, Mr Bush mocked her during a television interview. Ironic as Mr. Bush himself is a Born Again Christian.
So, then it was OK to execute a prisoner given all due process. Now, because a man that wanted to beat the rap claims that he was not told that, as a Mexican national, he was not told he could contact his embassy and or consulate for guidance, well Mr. Comprehensive Immigration "Reform" is in a huff against justice being carried out.
I miss the old George W. Bush that did not buckle to the pressure to spare a killer, yes reformed, from justice. The current one is unbecoming to say the least.
And, to end this saga, some of the last words uttered from Mr. Leal's mouth were the following:

Viva Mexico!

No Mr. Leal, Viva Justicia!

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