United States: Argentine Víctor Saldaño would be executed in November

"We are not asking for humanitarian aid to the state, we are asking it to implement the mandate of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), because the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is made to do it before the United States, otherwise its silence makes it an accomplice, "Juan said. Carlos Vega, lawyer of Saldaño. "Any political reason not to do so can be superior to the law," added the lawyer.

The death penalty could be executed in November, as Saldaño has lost his second appeal to the US justice system.

Vega explained that he had filed a brief with the Argentine Foreign Ministry for the purpose of "demanding from the United States" respect for the IACHR resolution ordering the release of the convict for "racist vices "in the judicial process.

Vega said last Wednesday it had submitted the text asking it to intercede with the United States to demand compliance with resolution 76 issued on December 10, 2016 by the IACHR, in which they badyzed the two legal proceedings initiated in the past. 39 of the Commission. Saldaño was submitted and concluded that in both cases they were "No one for vitiated by racism".

For the international organization of human rights "The whole trial was nil, not because the death penalty had an impact on human rights, but because the judicial process was tainted with racism"said the lawyer from Cordoba. Similarly, the lawyer argued that the United States is a member of the IACHR and recognizes its competence. Therefore, "its resolutions have legal and binding value" in this US state.

In 1990, Saldaño left his home in the city of Córdoba after visiting several countries settled in Dallas, State of Texas, where he got drunk with his Mexican friend on November 25, 1995, Jorge Chávezand they attacked the merchant Paul Ray KingMurdered in a forest, both arrested after the crime and after being tried, Chavez was sentenced to "life imprisonment" as a participant in the crime and Saldaño to the "death sentence" as a that the author of the murder.

Since then Lidia GuerreroSaldaño's mother made a pilgrimage to avoid the execution of the death penalty and to comply with the IACHR resolution to be released or otherwise removed from the "death row" and placed in a psychiatric hospital. its psychological deterioration.

"Víctor is more than 20 years old on death row, and with four years in the corridor, no psychological apparatus will survive, destroying the few human beings who can stay," he said of his state of health. health.

He also emphasized "Permanent accompaniment" Pope Francis in the struggle for many years for the United States to comply with the resolutions of the IACHR.

Vega also said that one of the former lawyers of United States who attended Saldaño visited him in prison and told him that the death penalty will be applied next November.

All courts are already filled: "Saldaño came out of the national, legal and federal system he was in. With the Fifth Circuit decision, the appeals ended and only the US Supreme Court remains.", he said, and found the death penalty "difficult".

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