"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Jim, wrote:
washingtonpost.com
U.S. Quits Pact Used in Capital Cases
Foes of Death Penalty Cite Access to Envoys

By Charles Lane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 10, 2005; Page A01

The Bush administration has decided to pull out of an international
agreement that opponents of the death penalty have used to fight the
sentences of foreigners on death row in the United States, officials said
yesterday.

In a two-paragraph letter dated March 7, Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice informed U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan that the United States
"hereby withdraws" from the Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on
Consular Relations. The United States proposed the protocol in 1963 and
ratified it -- along with the rest of the Vienna Convention -- in 1969.

Did *anything* good come out of the 60's?