Mexican National Humberto Leal Put To Death By Leathal Injection [VIDEO]

This is a follow up to my earlier post today on the Mexican national Humberto Leal. He was put to death this evening following a hard fought stay of execution.  This controversial case even had the White House calling for the state of Texas to stay the execution.

Humberto Leal was pronounced dead at 6:21pm Thursday evening.  Both the U.S. Supreme Court and Texas Governor Rick Perry denied Leal's defense team a stay of execution.

The State Department, President Obama and Mexican authorities had all asked for Texas authorities to stop the execution because Leal was not granted access to the Mexican consulate during his trial.  Which, by the way, was in 1995 when Leal was sentenced to death for raping and killing a 16 year old girl.

The above mentioned authorities had asked for the reprisal on the bases of the 1963 Vienna Treaty that required foreign nationals arrested in foreign countries access to their respective consulates.

The decision by the court was delivered about an hour before the execution.

In a 5-4 decision an hour before the execution, the majority wrote, “We have no authority to stay an execution in light of an 'appeal of the President,' presenting free-ranging assertions of foreign policy consequences, when those assertions come unaccompanied by a persuasive legal claim.”