U.S. Says It Has Withdrawn From World Judicial Body
Friday, March 11, 2005
- Organization: New York Times
- Link: http://www.nytimes.com
Prompted by an international tribunal's decision last year ordering new hearings for 51 Mexicans on death rows in the United States, the State Department said yesterday that the United States had withdrawn from the protocol that gave the tribunal jurisdiction to hear such disputes.
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