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Capital Punishment Issues in the U.S. Supreme Court

XI.  Supremacy Clause (in the context of international treaties)

Medellin v. Dretke, 544 U.S. 660 (2005) [FindLaw] [Lexis], declining to address the merits of the claim by a defendant, a Mexican national, that his rights under the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, as interpreted by the International Court of Justice, were violated during his Texas capital case.

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