We can have executions without long delays, or we can have the procedural review necessary to avoid unfair executions, but we can't have both.
But evidence of racism invoked during the trial probably won't bother Perry: if he had a conscience about signing off on overtly unfair executions, it probably stopped bothering him somewhere much earlier in his run of 234 executions as Texas governor.
When it comes to human rights violations in Iran, such as the persecution of ethnic and religious minorities, arbitrary detentions and unfair trials, torture, executions, public hangings, and restrictions on freedom of press, expression and speech, there is no significant ideological division across Iran's political spectrum.
An Urgent Action is issued when someone is in immediate danger of torture, execution or unfair trial.
James Lynch, the group's spokesman for North Africa, was quoted by Agence France-Presse as saying it feared that Mr. Mahmoudi would "face real risks, serious human rights violations, including torture, extrajudicial execution and unfair trial".
But in 1804, when Napoleon stunned France with the unfair trial and hasty execution of the Duke d'Enghien on a flimsy pretext of conspiracy, Chateaubriand resigned his post in protest.
Mir Hussein Moussavi, an opposition leader, condemned the executions as "unfair".
Of course President Obama is pursuing a renewed relationship with Cuba, a country that engages in systemic human rights abuses, including torture, arbitrary imprisonment, unfair trials, and extrajudicial executions.
Washington's muted response to mounting Saudi violations -- 2015 saw at least 157 executions after unfair trials, the most for two decades, and a continuing clamp down on non-violent critics of the government -- only enables the repression.
She added that Sheikh Nimr was convicted in an "unfair" trial and that his execution "is only adding to the existing sectarian discord and unrest".
