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August execution set for Mexican-born inmate

10:41 AM CDT on Monday, May 5, 2008

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4/1: Seven Mexicans on death row lose bids for appeal

HOUSTON — A Mexican-born Texas prisoner whose death sentence set off an international dispute that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court rebuffing the White House has received an Aug. 5 execution date.

A state district judge in Houston on Monday set the lethal injection date for 33-year-old Jose Medellin for his participation in the rape-slayings of two teenage girls 15 years ago.

The Supreme Court in March voted against hearing the case of Medellin, saying President Bush overstepped his authority by trying to order Texas to reopen his case and the cases of 50 others born in Mexico and condemned for murders in the U.S.