Curiously, it was in his role as legal counsel to then-Gov. Bush that Gonzales penned yet another memo pertaining to international law, only in that case his advice was designed not to avoid death sentences, but rather to expedite them on Texas' heavily populated death row. On June 16, 1997, Gonzales first showcased his proclivity for torturing international law when he sent a letter to the U.S. State Department in which he argued that, "Since the State of Texas is not a signatory to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, we believe it is inappropriate to ask Texas to determine whether a breach … occurred in connection with the arrest and conviction" of a Mexican national. Or, put another way, he asserted that an international treaty just didn't apply to Texas.
MSNBC Slate article
Read that article, it has some doozie information about Bush and Gonzales tossing out international, as well as national, law in order to execute people.
Eg:
For his part Bush suggested at the time that the main message of the Faulder case was, "People can't just come in our state and cold-blood murder somebody." Unmoved by the violation of international law, Bush simply chose to disregard it and get on with the execution.
This thug must be stopped.
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