In Texas, Mexican national Rubén Cárdenas Ramírez is scheduled to die by lethal injection this evening, over the objections of Mexican diplomats who’ve called his planned execution “illegal.” Ramírez was sentenced to death after he was convicted of killing his 15-year-old cousin in 1997. But Mexican officials cite conflicting statements by witnesses at Ramírez’s trial and shoddy forensic evidence. This is Carlos Sada, Mexico’s deputy foreign minister.

Carlos Sada: “From our perspective, of course, the procedures have not been exhausted. The fact that there is a violation of due process, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, to the Vienna Convention, and not having the possibility of an interview with a consular officer, of course, is a violation. And that’s why it was sanctioned in this way by the International Court of Justice at The Hague, where they recommend proceedings be reopened.”