Abstract
While the Breard case was making its way through the US courts and the ICJ, two similar cases, both involving violations of the Vienna Convention, were developing in Texas and Arizona. Each litigation strained relations between the United States and a significant ally. The Faulder case in Texas centered on a Canadian citizen, while the LaGrand case in Arizona involved the capital sentences of two brothers who held German citizenship. Neither legal action turned out well for the men accused and convicted of capital offenses and both drew international attention to the use of the death penalty in the United States.
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Gregory Dean Gisvold. “Strangers in a Strange Land: Assessing the Fate of Foreign Nationals in the United States by State and Local Authorities.” Minnesota Law Review 78 (1993–1994), 802.
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Atwell, M.W. (2015). The Execution of a Foreign National: The Case of Joseph Stanley Faulder. In: An American Dilemma. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137270375_5
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