Travis Crump wrote: > Okay, I will bite, I did a simple Google search and here is what I came > up with: > a) I assume you are referring to the Lagrande case.
Yes, he did. > b) The German goverment was informed in 1992, seven years before they > were executed. Prior to that it was unknown that they were German > citizens and they were treated as US citizens. You have a link for that? My link[1] says the judiciary of arizona knewd it since 1982. > c) Their guilt was never in question. That's not interesting here. > d) That they had adequate legal representation was never in question. Oh sure it is. [1] also says: Also the LaGrand brothers did not have a good lawyer: The obligation defender at that time, to who for the first time a case of death penalty was entrusted, granted later to have been badly prepared - and of the Viennese convention to have never heard. (Translatet with Altavista) > e) They were not executed by the US government, they were executed by > the State of Arizona. There is a difference if you aren't familiar with > our system of government and the death penalty isn't legal in all 50 > states. But it is allowed by the US government. And they are both dead now. So where exactly is the difference? [1] http://www2.tagesspiegel.de/archiv/2000/11/13/ak-po-au-16517.html (german, you can use http://babelfish.altavista.com/ for translation) -- Everyone who sends advertisement to me agrees to pay a fee of 10 Euro.
