Foreign Nationals, Part II
Information provided by Mark Warren of Human Rights Research
Confirmed Foreign Nationals Executed Since 1976
With the exception of Angel Maturino Resendiz, all indications are that none of these executed individuals were informed by U.S. authorities upon arrest of their right to have their consulate notified of their detention, as required under Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. In several instances, prisoners on this list did not learn of their right to request consular assistance for more than a decade, by which time the treaty violation was considered by the appellate courts to be a procedurally defaulted claim. Cases indicated with (#) are those in which the consular notification issue was raised on appeal or in clemency proceedings (major appellate opinions on consular rights are in brackets).
| NAME | VCCR CLAIM RAISED | NATIONALITY | STATE | DATE |
| Leslie Lowenfield | Guyana | Louisiana | April 13, 1988 | |
| Carlos Santana | # | Dominican Republic | Texas | March 23, 1993 |
| Ramon Montoya | # | Mexico | Texas | March 25, 1993 |
| Pedro Medina | Cuba | Florida | March 25, 1997 | |
| Irineo Tristan Montoya | # | Mexico | Texas | June 18, 1997 |
| Mario Murphy | #(Fourth Circuit) | Mexico | Virginia | September 18, 1997 |
| Angel Breard | #(US Supreme Court) | Paraguay | Virginia | April 14, 1998 |
| Jose Villafuerte | # | Honduras | Arizona | April 22, 1998 |
| Tuan Nguyen | Viet Nam | Oklahoma | December 10, 1998 | |
| Jaturun Siripongs | # | Thailand | California | February 9, 1999 |
| Karl LaGrand | #(Ninth Circuit) | Germany | Arizona | February 24, 1999 |
| Walter LaGrand | #(Ninth Circuit) | Germany | Arizona | March 3, 1999 |
| Alvaro Calambro | # | Philippines | Nevada | April 5, 1999 |
| Joseph Stanley Faulder | #(Fifth Circuit) | Canada | Texas | June 17, 1999 |
| Miguel Angel Flores | #(Fifth Circuit) | Mexico | Texas | November 9, 2000 |
| Sebastian Bridges | South Africa | Nevada | April 21, 2001 | |
| Sahib al-Mosawi | # | Iraq | Oklahoma | December 6, 2001 |
| Javier Suarez Medina | # | Mexico | Texas | August 14, 2002 |
| Rigoberto Sanchez Velasco | Cuba | Florida | October 2, 2002 | |
| Mir Aimal Kasi | # | Pakistan | Virginia | November 14, 2002 |
| Hung Thanh Le | # | Viet Nam | Oklahoma | March 23, 2004 |
| Angel Maturino Resendiz |
Mexico |
Texas |
June 27, 2006 |
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| Jose Ernesto Medellin | # |
Mexico |
Texas |
August 5, 2008 |
| Heliberto Chi Aceituno | # |
Honduras | Texas |
August 7, 2008 |
| Edward Nathaniel Bell | # | Jamaica | Virginia | February 29, 2009 |
Foreign Nationals with Scheduled Execution Dates
| Yosvanis Valle |
# |
Cuba | Florida |
November 10, 2009 |
| Claude Maturana | # | France | Arizona | December 26, 2002 |
| Anibal Garcia Rousseau | Cuba | Texas | March 5, 2006 | |
| Miguel Angel Martinez |
# | Mexico | California | July 26, 2009 |
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