Murderer’s Clemency Request Gets Boost

The State Department asked Texas officials to give “careful consideration” to a clemency request from Mexican citizen Miguel Angel Flores, who is scheduled to die by injection Thursday. The State Department noted that Texas may have violated an international treaty by not advising Flores of his right to notify the Mexican consulate when he was arrested. Flores, 31, raped and murdered college student Angela Tyson in 1989. Mexico has urged Texas Gov. George W. Bush, the Republican presidential nominee, to commute Flores’ sentence to life in prison or to postpone his execution to allow time for review.