Breard v. Greene: Death Penalty, Consular Relations, and International Law
- Eva Rieter, "Interim Measures by the World Court to Suspend the
Execution of an Individual: The Breard Case", 16
Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 475-494 (December 1998).
- "Agora: Breard", 92 American Journal of International
Law 666-712 (October 1998)(includes articles by Jonathan
I. Charney, W. Michael Reisman, Curtis A. Bradley, Jack L. Goldsmith,
Louis Henkin, Carlos Manuel Vázquez, Jordan J. Paust, Lori Fisler
Damrosch, Frederic L. Kirgis, and Anne-Marie Slaughter; was at
http://www.asil.org/agora2.htm).
- Peter Bekker & Keith Highet, International Court of Justice
Orders United States to Stay Execution of Paraguay National in
Virginia (ASIL Insight, April 1998).
- Paraguayan
National Executed in United States Despite Court's Granting of
Provisional Measures (Cornell's Breard page with links to
related documents; was at http://www.law.cornell.edu/icj/breard.htm)
- DIANA Human Rights
Database collection of Breard documents via its Paraguay
page (was at http://diana.law.yale.edu/diana/db/idx_paraguay.html) (see also documents at Cornell's ICJ page:
- Paraguay
v. USA: Request for the Indication of Provisional Measures (Order)
- When
International Law Collides with Death Row (by T.R. Goldman, Legal
Times, April 6, 1998, at 1 (v.20, no.45); Angel Breard case)
- Killer
Executed Despite Pleas: World Tribunal, State Department Had Urged
Delay (by Brooke A. Masters & Joan Biskupic, Washington Post,
April 15, 1998, at B01)
- On a
Foreign Death Row (by Anne-Marie Slaughter, Washington Post, April
14, 1998, at A15)
- Paraguay
v. United States of America: Verbatim Record (of the
proceedings before the International Court of Justice; CR 98/7- 7 April 1998)
- Paraguay
v. United States of America: Verbatim Record 2 (of the proceedings
before the International Court of Justice, 7 April 1998)
- Paraguay
v. United States of America: Request for Provisional Measures (03
Apr 98, ICJ)
- Application of
the Republic of Paraguay (Paraguay v. United States of America:
Application - 3 April 1998, ICJ)
- Briefs
(via McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, law firm that represented death
row inmate, Angel Breard, in his federal habeas proceeding)
- Paraguay
v. Gilmore: Brief Amicus Curiae of International Law Professors
(Republic of Paraguay v. James S. Gilmore III, No. 97-1390, Supreme
Court of the United States, 1997, Brief of April 13, 1998)
- Breard
v. Greene: United States Supreme Court Decision (17 Apr 98;
decided April 14, 1998; see http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/97-8214.ZPC.html)
- Vienna
Convention on Consular Relations (Paraguay v. United States of
America) (International Court of Justice, 1998)
- Breard v. Greene (97-8214)(A-732); The Republic of Paraguay
v. Gilmore (97-1390)(A-738); In Re Angel Francisco Breard
(97-8660)(A-767); Republic of Paraguay v. Gilmore (No. 125
Orig. (A-771)), United States Supreme Court, April 14, 1998. On the
LEXIS in the GENFED Library, US file, at 1998 U.S. LEXIS 2465, on
WESTLAW in the SCT database, at 1998 WL 171806, at Cornell's Supreme
Court web site, at Findlaw's Supreme
Court page,
and forthcoming via United States Law
Week (BNA).
- Briefs may be forthcoming in the LEXIS GENFED Library, BRIEFS file and
WESTLAW's SCT-BRIEF database if they decide to make an exception and
include the briefs for this case where the petition for cert was
denied; available in print format at WLaw53473.
- Statement
Amicus Curiae of International Law Professors (George A. Bermann,
David D. Caron, Abram Chayes, Lori Fisler Damrosch, Richard
N. Gardner, Louis Henkin, Harold Hongju Koh, Andreas F. Lowenfeld, W. Michael
Reisman, Oscar Schachter, AnneMarie Slaughter, and Edith Brown Weiss, Breard
v. Greene, 118 S. Ct. 1352 (1998) (No. 97-1390); Paraguay v. Gilmore:
Brief Amicus Curiae, No. 97-1390; Brief of April 13, 1998)
)
- Breard
v. Pruett (1/22/1998, No. 96-25)
- Vienna
Convention on Consular Relations and Optional Protocols (done on
24 April 1963, 596 UNTS 262)
- Office of the Solicitor
General (United States Department of Justice; includes briefs)
- International Court of
Justice (World Court docket including the April 9, 1998 order; see
also Cornell at http://www.law.cornell.edu/icj/icj9/opinion.htm)
- World
Court Order of 9 April 1998 (via Counsel Connect's HotDocs page)
- Consular
Notification and Access: Instructions for Federal, State, and Local
Law Enforcement and Other Officials Regarding Foreign Nationals in the
United States and the Rights of Consular Officials to Assist Them
(U.S. Department of State, Publication No. 10518, January 1998; also
available as a PDF
file)
- Diplomatic and Consular Immunity: Guidance for Law
Enforcement and Judicial Authorities (U.S. Department of State
Publication No. 10524, Rev. May 1998)
- Death
Penalty Project (Cornell Law School)
- Death Penalty
(Court TV Library)
- A
Time for Action - Protecting the Consular Rights of Foreign Nationals
Facing the Death Penalty (Amnesty International, AMR
51/106/2001, August 22, 2001)
- The
Execution of Angel Breard: Apologies Are Not Enough (Amnesty
International, May 1, 1998)
- Angel Francisco
Breard: Facing Death in a Foreign Land (Amnesty International,
March 1998, AI INDEX: AMR 51/14/98)
- Frederic L. Kirgis, World Court Rules
Against the United States in LaGrand Case Arising from a Violation of
the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (ASIL Insights,
No. 75, July 2001)(German nationals in the U.S. executed in Arizona)
- Foreign
Nationals and the Death Penalty in the United States (Mark Warren,
Amnesty International)
- Death Penalty Information
Center (DPIC, Washington, D.C.; includes links to other sources of
information)
- Death Penalty
Links (Internet resources)
- National Association of
Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL; includes links to Champion
magazine and death penalty brief bank)
- Death
Penalty Brief Bank (American Bar Association)
- Capital
Punishment 1998 (U.S. Department of Justice)
- European Coalition to Abolish the
Death Penalty (ECADP)
- BOOKS:
- The Death Penalty : Abolition in Europe (Strasbourg :
Council of Europe Pub., 1999). 185 p. ISBN 9287138745.
- Roger G. Hood, The Death Penalty : A World-Wide Perspective
(2nd rev. & updated ed., Oxford, UK : Clarendon Press ; New York :
Oxford University Press, 1996). xiii, 307 p. ISBN 0198262825.
- William Schabas, The Abolition of the Death Penalty in
International Law (2d ed., Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge
University Press, 1997). xli, 403 p. ISBN 0521581354.
- William Schabas, The Death Penalty As Cruel Treatment and
Torture : Capital Punishment Challenged in the World's Courts
(Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1996). xxvi, 288 p.
ISBN 1555532683.