Mr. Javier Suárez Medina, a young Mexican national, is scheduled for execution by lethal injection in Texas on Wednesday, 14 August 2002. Sentenced to death when he was barely 19 years old, his case raises deeply troubling questions about the fairness of his trial and the ongoing refusal of Texas authorities to respect binding international treaty obligations, especially the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, the American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. After 13 years on death row, Mr. Suárez has now exhausted all normal avenues of legal appeal. Unless the courts or the Governor of Texas intervenes, he faces death by lethal injection despite mounting concerns over the reliability of his sentence.
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