Illegal Kills...Wants Immunity

[Mahnarch]

www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5928737.html

HUNTSVILLE — When Heliberto Chi showed up at a men's clothing store in suburban Dallas, he was a familiar face because he'd once worked there as a tailor.

And when he returned after closing time the same evening to say he'd left his wallet behind, his former boss, Armand Paliotta, let him in.

Then Chi pulled a gun.

By the time he fled with a money bag, Paliotta was shot dead and another employee had been shot and wounded. A third employee, an assistant manager, hid beneath a rack of clothes, called 911 and left the phone line open. Chi's voice was captured on tape as he hunted for the hiding assistant manager, urging her in Spanish[/b][/u] to "Come to the front" of the store.

He jumped into a waiting car as police were en route to the Arlington store. The tape would be played for jurors at Chi's capital murder trial, where he was convicted and condemned.

Chi, 29, from Honduras, is set for execution Thursday evening. He'd be the second foreign-born convicted murderer in Texas this week to die and the second to seek a reprieve(??!!) because of what lawyers argued were """""international treaty"""" violations when he was arrested.

Prosecutors said there was no doubt of his guilt [ <-----this ].

"Not only was there eyewitness testimony, but that assistant manager got out a 911 call, and you could hear Chi in the background on the phone," said Mick Meyer, a former Tarrant County assistant district attorney who prosecuted Chi. "It was pretty solid evidence right there."

Witnesses said that when Paliotta, 56, shoved the gun-wielding Chi and started running, he was fatally shot.

In September, Chi was spared from execution when the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stopped his scheduled punishment after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether lethal injection procedures were ""unconstitutionally"" cruel. When the Supreme Court earlier this year upheld the method as proper, his date was re-set for Thursday.

Chi was in the United States illegally at the time of Paliotta's 2001 slaying. Lawyers for the Central American country said Chi was unable to contact anyone from his government, a violation of an international treaty, after he was arrested in California and extradited to Texas.


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One shot!
Head.
Down.

No appeals.
No liberal twists.
Down!



......for a MONEY BAG!!!


DOWN!
END!

[Demona]

Who cares where he's from? Our country, our rules! What's more, how dare it be said the most humane way to put someone down is "cruel?" Like murder and leaving family members behind isn't?

WTF!!!

[Bartleby, the Scrivener]

Aug 7, 2008 2:17:34 GMT -5 Demona said:

What's more, how dare it be said the most humane way to put someone down is "cruel?"

lol irony

[Phil]

This is not a difficult 1 for me at all.

He came to America from Honduras, legally or illegally he opted to live as an American. The old saying is 'when in Rome do as the Romans do.'

So he has had the benefits of what American culture has given him for as long as he has been in this country. He had the right of employment, he was gainfully employed for however long he worked at that store. He must not have been on real bad terms because his former employer let him in.

And he opens fire killing the owner and injuring at least 1 other person. What I don't know from this is did the owner's death close the store? If so, he ended the employment of however many people that store employed. If a family member or someone kept the store opened then I guess that didn't happen.

But this guy also gets the right of a fair trial and a jury in the American court system. He is found guilty and sentenced to execution and now they're crying 'international treaty.'

I don't think so. If he had been from somewhere not living in the US perhaps his native country could have a say in the matter under international treaty. I can't see how international treaty would apply in this case. He left Honduras. He had no desire to live there or intention of going back apparently.

His desire was to live in the United States so if he lives as an American nomatter how legally he got here. He did get a fair trial and due process of law brings him to execution.

He had no leg to stand on as far as I can see.

[Blastgirl]

I tend to think the same thing. The man enjoyed the benefits that he would have had as a citizen in an employment setting now that he has been incarcerated he and is on the verge of execution it's suddenly he's not a citizen they can't prosecute him. With privileges also comes responsibility.

[Kimm]

I agree you live with the rewards of being a citizen then you also deal with the ramifications legally that a citizen is subject to.

American citizens dont murder in cold blood. If they do they are tried and possibly executed. So thats the life he sought out so thats what he gets.

[Mahnarch]

I fully agree and I would stand on that ground, firmly.

As President, if the Hondorusian Government wanted to protect him I'd say the same thing you guys did.

I would have him executed on the spot [not on live TV].
If Honduras wanted to complain I'd threaten to level them.

....and I'd do it, if it came to it.

It's time the U.S. retook it's place as a 'serious' country. Not a liberal 'safe haven' like it's become.
You do the crime. You do the time. No matter where you came from.
Diplomatic Immunity holds NO water with me!

[Mahnarch]

As an add-on:

For those who say, "But, the other countries would revolt......".

The more you level the less the resistance as you go.

Level Iran they can't retaliate for Syria.
Level Syria they can't retaliate for Saudi Arabia.
Level SA they can't retaliate for Palastine.
Level Palastine they can't retaliate for Nova Scotia...

...oh, wait!!! I don't want to tip off Nova Scotia, yet!!

Crap!