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GENEVA — The UN human rights office called Friday on the US state of Texas to spare the life of a Mexican death row inmate convicted of rape and murder, as there were questions about whether he had a fair trial.
Humberto Leal Garcia, 38, is scheduled to die in Texas on July 7, but Mexico maintains he was not given proper consular access, a violation of the Vienna Convention.
Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, pointed out that the governor of Texas "has the power to commute the sentence to life imprisonment."
"The High Commissioner has written to him directly requesting him to do so," he said...[Full Article]
