When I first heard of this killers story I wondered why would Obama specifically be injecting himself into the narrative.   Read the article and then see below how this diverts right back to that long standing friendship between Obama and convicted terrorist Bill Ayers.
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas executed a Mexican citizen. Thursday for the rape-slaying of a teenager after he and the White House pleaded in vain for a Supreme Court stay, saying he was denied help from his home country that could have helped him avoid the death penalty.
In his last minutes, Humberto Leal repeatedly said he was sorry and accepted responsibility. “I have hurt a lot of people. I take full blame for everything. I am sorry for what I did,” he said in the death chamber. “One more thing,” he said as the drugs began taking effect. Then he shouted twice, “Viva Mexico!” “Ready warden,” he said. “Let’s get this show on the road.”
He grunted, snored several times and appeared to go to sleep, then stopped all breathing movement. The 38-year-old mechanic was pronounced dead at 6:21 p.m., 10 minutes after the lethal drugs began flowing into his arms.
After his execution, relatives of Leal who had gathered in Guadalupe, Mexico, burned a T-shirt with an image of the American flag in protest. Leal’s uncle Alberto Rodriguez criticized the U.S. justice system and the Mexican government and said, “There is a God who makes us all pay.”
Leal was sentenced to death for the 1994 murder of 16-year-old Adria Sauceda, whose brutalized nude body was found hours after he left a San Antonio street party with her. She was bludgeoned with a piece of 30- to 40-pound chunk of asphalt.
Leal was just a toddler when he and his family moved to the U.S. from Monterrey, Mexico, but his citizenship became a key element of his attorneys’ efforts to win a stay. They said police never told him following his arrest that he could seek legal assistance from the Mexican government under an international treaty.
Mexico, the Obama administration and others had asked the U.S. Supreme Court to delay Leal’s execution so Congress could consider a law that would require court reviews in cases where condemned foreign nationals did not receive help from their consulates. They said the case could affect not only foreigners in the U.S. but Americans detained in other countries.
The court rejected the request 5-4. Its five more conservative justices doubted that executing Leal would cause grave international consequences, and doubted “that it is ever appropriate to stay a lower court judgment in light of unenacted legislation.”
“Our task is to rule on what the law is, not what it might eventually be,” the majority said.
The court’s four liberal-leaning justices said they would have granted the stay.
Leal’s attorney Sandra L. Babcock said that with consular help her client could have shown that he was not guilty. But she added, “This case was not just about one Mexican national on death row in Texas. The execution of Mr. Leal violates the United States’ treaty commitments, threatens the nation’s foreign policy interests, and undermines the safety of all Americans abroad.”
Prosecutors, however, said Congress was unlikely to pass the legislation sought and that Leal’s appeals were simply an attempt to evade justice for a gruesome murder.
Mexico’s foreign ministry said in a statement that the government condemned Leal’s execution and sent a note of protest to the U.S. State Department. The ministry also said Mexican ambassador Arturo Sarukhan attempted to contact Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who refused to speak on the phone.
The governor’s office declined to comment on the execution Thursday.
Leal’s argument that he should have received consular legal aid that could have helped his case was not new. Texas, the nation’s most active death penalty state, has executed other condemned foreign nationals who raised similar challenges, most recently in 2008.
Leal’s appeals, however, focused on legislation introduced last month in the U.S. Senate by Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy. Leahy’s measure would bring the U.S. into compliance with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations provision regarding the arrests of foreign nationals, and ensure court reviews for condemned foreigners to determine if a lack of consular help made a significant difference in the outcome of their cases.
“Americans detained overseas rely on their access to U.S. consulates every day,” Leahy said after the Supreme Court decision was announced. “If we expect other countries to abide by the treaties they join, the United States must also honor its obligations.”
The Obama administration took the unusual step of intervening in a state murder case last week when Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. joined Leal’s appeal, asking the high court to halt the execution and give Congress at least six months to consider Leahy’s bill. (read more)
So how does this case link back so personally to President Obama?  Mrs. Bill Ayers (Bernadine Dohrn) is Sandra L. Babcock’s law partner.  Babcock was Leal’s counselor. Together they concocted the scheme to try and get Leal to skate using some ridiculously hypocritical slight of hand, and Obama was their puppet.
(Crime Victims Media Report)Humberto Leal’s defense attorney, Sandra L. Babcock, of the terrorist-sheltering law school at Northwestern University, has an interesting vitae.  Ms. Babcock’s research interest is imposing international law on the American justice system, a hobby she practices with her colleague, terrorist-cum-law-professor Bernadine

Dohrn.  In 2008, Babcock and Dohrn worked “tirelessly” together to get Chicago’s city council to pass a resolution signing on to the U.N. Convention for the Rights of the Child.  Of course, such things always sound nice.
In 2003, along with the A.C.L.U., The Jimmy Carter Center, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the Open Society Institute, Sandra Babcock, Bernadine Dorhn, and Van Jones (he’s listed as “invited”) participated in an A.C.L.U. sponsored conference called Human Rights at Home: International Law in U.S.

Courts (program here). The purpose of the conference was to find ways to insinuate international (read: United Nations) laws and resolutions in American legal arenas, as Sandra Babcock is attempting to do to free her client, Humberto Leal.
As per her academic research and this movement, Babcock is now  claiming that the police failed to inform Leal of his right to Mexican  consular support when he was arrested.  Allegedly, this failure violated  the rules of the International Court of Justice at the Hague: Leal, as a  “Mexican national,” should have simply been able to call “his” embassy  and the entire mess — the body, the rock, the stick, the bloody clothes,  et. al. could be whisked away like some New Guinean ambassador’s  parking tickets.
But there’s one little problem: Humberto Leal has lived in the United  States, apparently illegally, since he was two.  Talk about wanting it  both ways: Leal was an American until the moment he murdered Adria  Sauceda.  That changed in the brief space between bashing in a young  girl’s head and wiping down the doors of his car.  Now he’s a “Mexican  national,” a term everyone from the President to the New York Times to “human rights” organizations (Leal’s rights, not Sauceda’s) is using  with no irony and no explanation, as they lobby to cloak a killer in  layers of special privileges while simultaneously lobbying to prevent  police from inquiring about immigration status.
Get it?  The police will have to determine if someone is a foreign  citizen in order to offer them consular rights, but they’ll also be  forbidden to ask if someone is a foreign citizen in the interest of not  discriminating against illegal immigrants, a lovely Catch 22 dreamed up  by academics.  This cliff we’re careening towards is permanent demotion  of Americans’ legal rights on their own soil.  If President Obama, his  friend Bernadine Dohrn, and Jimmy Carter get their way, the police are  going to find their hands tied in ten different ways, and our criminal  justice system will soon be utterly subservient to whatever the hell  they dream up at the U.N.
Expect more Humberto Leals.  (read a really interesting collection of information here)