| | |  Americas & Beyond | January 2009 
World Court Rules US Execution Illegal
 News wires
| | The judges of The International Court of Justice before the delivering of the judgement in the case between Mexico and the U.S., in the Hague January 19, 2009. The row, which was initiated by Mexico in 2004, and which has strained relations between the neighbours, centres on the fact that the United States failed to inform 51 of its citizens sentenced to die in U.S. jails of their right to consular assistance and access under the Vienna Convention. (Reuters/Robin van Lonkhuijsen) | |
The International Court of Justice in The Hague has ruled that the United States breached international law in executing a Mexican citizen last August.
In 2004, the World Court ordered the US to review the case of José Medellín Rojas and a number of other Mexican nationals.
Mexico had brought the case of 51 of its citizens sentenced to death in the US whom had not been told of their rights to consular assistance. In 1994, Mr Rojas was found guilty by a Texas court of the murder of two girls aged 14 and 16. |
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