The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a case in that 51 foreign nationals may be released from death row because at the time of their arrest they did not ask to speak to their home countries' Consulate.

One that may be released is Jose Medellin, who was convicted and sentenced to death for raping and murdering two 14-year-old girls in Houston, TX, in 1993.

The Vienna Convention of 1963 states "if he so requests, the competent authorities of the receiving State shall, without delay, inform theconsular post of the sending State if, within its consular district, a national of that State is arrested orcommitted to prison or to custody pending trial or is detained in any other manner."

But should this treaty have more power than the Constitution?