CANADIAN ON TEXAS DEATH ROW LOSES SUPREME COURT APPEAL

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CANADIAN ON TEXAS DEATH ROW LOSES SUPREME COURT APPEAL
Last December we reported that the U.S. Supreme Court had granted a stay of execution for Canadian national Joseph Stanley Faulder. The Court has now dismissed his case without comment, leaving the state of Texas free to reschedule his execution for any time.
Faulder was sentenced to death for a murder in 1975. Under the Vienna Convention, which has been incorporated into US law, citizens of foreign nations have a right to assistance from their consular officials. Faulder was not informed of this right. His lawyers say that if he had had access to this assistance, he would probably not have been sentenced to death.
The case has created a furor in Canada, where the death penalty was abolished in 1976. Canadian government officials call the dismissal of Faulder's claims under the Vienna Convention a violation of "minimum international standards of justice."

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