100% correct Muskrat, there was years of appeals through all levels of courts and he lost, even when he got the "money" lawyers if you will, and as far as Bush having anything to do with it :
....his was just the last call type-thing after all those appeals failed. What, your saying he is that damn good that he knows more than all those judges put together? 8)
http://www.bobmillsmp.com/intouch/intouchdetails1999.asp?ID=41
June 23, 1999
There are some subjects that people generally don't want to talk about across the dining room table. Understandably, capital punishment is one of them. With the nightly news telling us about the latest school shooting or the most recent atrocities committed somewhere faraway, it is perfectly reasonable for ordinary, law-abiding, citizens not to want to focus on the death penalty. But last week they had little choice. The execution of Canadian-born and convicted murderer Stanley Faulder in Texas monopolised one whole evening's coverage on CBC Newsworld.
However, the one-sidedness of that broadcast undoubtedly enraged many ordinary, law-abiding people. Had someone unfamiliar with the Faulder case relied solely on TV, they would most likely have assumed that an innocent man had been unjustly sentenced to death. Forgotten amid all of the heart-wrenching commentary about last minute appeals by the Canadian Government was the homicidal brutality of the act that landed Faulder before the Texas court and led to his lawful execution. So, what did he do? After drifting south into the United States in the early 1970s, Faulder committed a variety of petty crimes. One evening, after asking to use her telephone, he killed a law-abiding Texas woman by beating her head in and stabbing her in the heart with a butcher knife as she lay hog-tied on her bed. The impact of this sickening image is not lessened by the more than two decades since the crime was committed.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=5th&navby=case&no=9920542cv0
1. 1 When this court denied Faulder's earlier petition for habeas relief, Faulder v. Johnson , 81 F.3d 515 (5th Cir. 1996), the court specifically rejected a claim based on Texas's breach of the Vienna Convention. Before the court in that proceeding as in this was a letter dated September 1, 1992 from Texas Assistant Attorney General Zapalac to a representative of the Embassy of Canada, which explains the contacts between Texas and the Canadian government during Faulder's prosecution and the fact that Faulder maintained from the time of his arrest that he had no desire to contact his family in Canada. For that and other reasons, this court earlier held that the violation of the Vienna Convention amounted to harmless error.
There is lots more once you get past the 3 pages of waa-waa sites, one less killer=good thing
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