WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed today to consider whether one of the six killers of Houston teen-agers Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Peña should escape execution because he was denied a chance to get legal assistance from the Mexican consulate. As requested by the Bush administration, the high court will hear arguments in the fall on the case of Jose Medellin , a Mexican citizen sent to Texas death row in the notorious 1993 rape-murder case. A decision, expected by summer 2008, may resolve a long-running debate over the protection offered to accused foreigners by a treaty known as the 1963 Vienna Convention . The debate has strained relations between the United States and Mexico and could determine the fate of more than 50 Mexicans on death row in the United States, including more than a dozen in Texas. It also could affect the treatment of about 6,000 U.S. citizens accused of crimes each year while traveling or living abroad, who also are protected by the treaty. Siding with the killer are the Mexican government, a group of international law experts and the pro-death penalty White House, which considers a Texas court’s decision in Medellin’s case an affront to… Read full this story
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