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Texas Rejects Stay: Executes Mexican Man Who Raped and Killed Teenager

Texas Rejects Stay: Executes Mexican Man Who Raped and Killed TeenagerHUNTSVILLE, Texas — A 38-year-old Mexican man has been executed in Texas for the rape-slaying of a San Antonio teenager after White House-backed appeals to spare him were rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Humberto Leal received lethal injection Thursday evening in Huntsville.

His punishment capped a flurry of appeals that argued he deserved additional court review of his case because authorities didn’t tell him he could seek legal help from the Mexican government when he was arrested for the murder of 16-year-old Adria Sauceda in 1994.

President Barack Obama‘s administration had joined with Leal’s attorneys, arguing a delay was warranted so legislation covering cases like his could work its way through Congress.

Lawyers for the state of Texas opposed the appeals, saying un-passed legislation was not law.

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  • Sy Kosys
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:56pm

    17 long years in the making….

    I love my state :) (read into that, what you will….)

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  • betterthantv
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:55pm

    Fantastic! Thank you Governor Perry!

    I had an uncle killed 2 years ago by an illegal. Were still awaiting a trial because death penalty cases take a really loooong time. Somebody from the Mexican Consulate showed up a while back protesting the decision to seek the death penalty. Luckily for us the judge laughed him out of the courtroom!

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    • Suzee
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 11:28pm

      I too lost a very good friend lost a very good friend over twenty years. She was 7 months pregnant and an illegal from Mexico stole a car and ran a stop sign while driving intoxicated. He broadsided her car and she and her unborn child died at the scene. He was represented by a city attorney and the jury bought into the fact that he didn‘t know what the word ’stop‘ meant and didn’t understand what our road signs mean. He was given some time but was released in two years and sent back to Mexico. He came back again and committed another crime and served more time and was released again but disappeared. If we said ‘either’ the death penalty or punishment of the same action of the way someone killed another ……the bleeding hearts would be more content with the death penalty because that is so much more humane than recreating and killing the murderer the same way they killed their victims.

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    • football lady
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 12:03am

      Good!

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  • mentiljewel
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:55pm

    Perry should announce he`s running …. TOMMORROW

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    • mils
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:58pm

      he may be “mexican” but he’s been here in this country for many years!!!!….Obama, always going for the mexican vote…he must really believe mexicans are stupid.. I find it degrading

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  • osama bencluckin
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:55pm

    stand with currage with Humberto Leal for lethal injection lol i mean stand and watch

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  • junior1971
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:55pm

    This ws an attempt to gain further latino votes in the next election. This was and attempt to implement this one world ideology on the people of the U.S.A. This little girl was hispanic. This is laughable because the latino community would ( in my opinion) strongly support this course of action. They need to be informed that this administration would discard justice for their children in the name of politics. George Bush attempted to stop this as well. This is a conspiricy that is not theory. Thank GOD for Texas telling the Useless Nations(U.N) that we are a sovereign nation and will not continue to tolerate this dispicable lack of respect for all people like that poor, poor girl who was never allowed to live her life. This must end!!!!

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    • Kalish
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:26pm

      The Latino community may have approved of this, but most of them will still vote democrat

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    • stephenmarkovich
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 6:58am

      You are right! Get the Latino votes!

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  • kickagrandma
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:54pm

    You go, TEXAS!!!

    Next??????

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  • ModerationIsBest
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:54pm

    17 years for justice.

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    • hojo
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 8:06am

      Why did it take sooo long? His victim would have been 33 by now had it not happened. However perhaps he had some time to think of what he had done and agonize over his impending doom.

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  • Centurion_
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:53pm

    While I hate to cheer at a man’s execution, I have to admit it is heart warming to see Gov Perry refuse to knuckle under to pressure from the White House. If executing sentence on a duely convected heineous felon puts American lives in danger in other parts of the world then so be it.

    Much better than cowering under that desk in the oval office seeking UN approval.

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  • unknown
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:53pm

    Justice has been served. He wasn’t a Mexican or American, he was a monster that received what was due.

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  • Dougral Supports Israel
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:52pm

    I support Texas. The crime was especially heinous. Leal lived in the US from the time he was a toddler and likely thought of himself as American. The case went to the Supreme Court at least twice and Congress has never passed a law requiring state compliance with the treaty. I don’t believe there is any doubt here that Leal had access to competent representation in all the years between his arrest and his final disposal. Justice has finally been served in this case.

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    • RayofDarkSunshine
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:38pm

      I agree. This guy was brought over the Rio Grande when he was 2 yrs old, he’s no more
      mex than I am. 1 less dirtbag emitting CO2, should make the ******** happy!

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    • Therese
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 12:19pm

      Mark Levin stated this case went before the Supreme Court 4 times. This POS had very experienced lawyers working on his case. Someone may want to tell all the Poor Ol’ Folks in this country that they would NEVER get the help this man received over the past 17 years.

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  • heyjms
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:52pm

    Send his body back to Mexico C.O.D.

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    • Patriot Z
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:06pm

      WHOOOOO HOOOOOO!!!! buhhh by there pedro. best news i heard all day just send mexico the bill for all the expenses he incurred for his trial since they wanted to support this ‘poor wittle immgant’ so bad

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    • Bermuda Onion
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:46pm

      Just throw it in the Rio Grande and let it float down there.

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    • butler180
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 9:10am

      To HAYJMS Very good idea. Wish I would have thought of it.

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  • Want our country back
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:51pm

    There is one less Mexican that will be voting for obama….. Thank you Texas and thank you US Supreme court….

    We have got to rid our country of these thugs in 2012

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  • tige33
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:51pm

    I’m so proud to be a Texan. Thank you Gov. for taking a stand.

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  • Wishkah
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:51pm

    Way to Go Texas…. we stand with you…

    Rick Perry for President

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    • jerry2576
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:45pm

      I am with you, a clear choice.

      Perry for President

      Rubio for Vice Presemt

      That would give America a real choice for a CHANGE

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  • I.Gaspar
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:51pm

    This should have been done 17 years ago.
    Mexico, the “International Community”, obama, and george bush, now, all condemn Texas for putting this piece of human garbage to death.
    What about the poor girl who suffered mercilessly at the hands of this vile dog?
    Mexico can go to hell. I will never go there again…and I won’t even drink mexican beer again.
    And bush and obama should pray for forgiveness for their parts in this near travesty of justice.
    I find it hard to believe we still live in America any more.
    What a shame!

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    • kuhl
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 10:26pm

      Well Bush was Obama lite. Both think more of our “image” to Mexico than of protecting the American people. The animal murdered a young girl. Texas justice prevailed. The rest of the states need to follow suit.

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  • Rayblue
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:50pm

    Welcome to Texas. You kill someone, we kill you.
    Period…..

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    • GulfPeg
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 6:47am

      Casey Anthony should have been tried in Texas!

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    • doodad
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 12:18pm

      @Rayblue, who said “(in Texas) if you kill someone we kill you…”

      Uh, wasn’t Andrea Yates, who methodically killed her 7 kids by drowning them in a bathtub from Texas? WTF happened there? If anyone deserved capital punishment it was her, but I guess that get-out-of-jail-free-card for women is handed out in Texas too.

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    • zorro
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 3:09pm

      @DOODAD

      You may want to Google the death row inmates in Texas. You’ll find there are women on death row. You will also find women have been executed. Yates had serious mental problems. I don’t think to this day she realizes what she did.

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  • Mateytwo Barreett
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:49pm

    But- but but Aw !!Well at least he wsn’t in the express lane GUDNUF!!

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  • I SPY
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:48pm

    Way to man up, Texas!

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  • likwidlizard
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:48pm

    Texas tells May-Hee-Ko to eat thier dirty shorts. They will do as they please when it comes to their cockroaches coming into our country and harming our people. I would’ve freely pushed every plunger on the tubes going into that alley rat. DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS–MAY-HEE-KO.

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  • yosemitefan
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:46pm

    Way to go Texas!!! Dont mess with Texas. Dont do the crime if you cant handle the time..

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  • eat-more-bacon-USA
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:45pm

    The Barry White House loves murderers, especially Mexican murderers. Texas, not so much.

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 8:40pm

      The Obama Admin. wanted to waste more Tax Payer $$$ to save this PIG..
      Unbelievable, wanted Congress to review his case,….. Hell, Pelosi would
      probably have sent this POS home.. GAWD !!!! Tks.Supreme Court and
      Gov. Perry…glad someone has the cojones to stand up to the WH……

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  • Bullwinkle
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:45pm

    Good!

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  • ofallon
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:45pm

    Finally some sanity amidst the confusion. Truth, justice and the American way. Thank you Texas for standing strong in spite of an Administration hungry for Latino votes.

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  • kenny1960
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:44pm

    Good for Governor Perry, Don’t let outsiders push you or the people of Texas around. Where was all this concern months or even years ago?? They waited until they could use this to score political points, Too darn bad . Rick Perry is the type of man we need in the White House because he is not afraid to tell Mexico to go pound sand !!

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    • fightback
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 11:23pm

      Obamma wanted a pardon so he could make him Taco Belle Czar

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    • chfields62
      Posted on July 7, 2011 at 11:43pm

      Go Texas!!!!!!!

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    • rickinnyc
      Posted on July 8, 2011 at 6:56am

      The current field are 100% DWARFS…we need a man of stature like Perry, otherwise Obummer-Burden beats them all….

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on July 7, 2011 at 7:44pm

    Message to Mexican illegal border crossing, all roads go through Texas.

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