TEXAS TODAY

Authorities find 3 bodies in Fort Worth double murder-suicide:

FORT WORTH (AP) — Police have discovered three members of a north Fort Worth family dead in what they say is an apparent double murder-suicide.

Fort Worth police spokesman Lt. Paul Henderson said that the bodies of a 36-year-old middle school teacher, her 44-yearold husband and a 14-year-old daughter were discovered Wednesday evening in their home by a police officer conducting a welfare check. Irving police contacted Fort Worth police about a "missing" teacher Wednesday because she had not reported to work since Monday, Henderson told Dallas-Fort Worth television station KDFW.

Henderson told The Associated Press on Wednesday night the teacher's absence triggered a call from her employer because "she was very prompt and it was very unlike her to miss."

He said that neighbors across the street from the 4500 block of Birchbend Lane said they heard the couple fighting around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Honduran man set to die Thursday for 2001 robberymurder in Texas:

HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Attorneys for an illegal immigrant from Honduras say his inability to get legal help from his government following his arrest for killing a Dallas-area store manager during a robbery should keep from a scheduled trip to the Texas death chamber.

Lawyers said Heliberto Chi, who was set to die Thursday evening, was denied rights given to foreigners under international treaty.

It's the second death penalty case this week in the nation's most active capital punishment state to focus on diplomatic issues.

On Tuesday night, after a split U.S. Supreme Court narrowly rejected a late appeal, Mexican-born convicted killer Jose Medellin was executed for participating in a gruesome gang rape and murders of two teenage Houston girls 15 years ago.

Unlike Medellin, Chi was not among some 50 death row inmates around the country, all Mexican born, who the International Court of Justice said should have new hearings in U.S. courts to determine whether the 1963 Vienna Convention treaty was violated during their arrests. Mexico had sued in the court on behalf of its citizens condemned in the U.S.

President Bush asked states to review the cases and legislation to implement the process was introduced recently in Congress, but the Supreme Court ruled earlier this year neither the president nor the international court could force Texas to wait.

Chi's attorneys argued that unlike its treaty obligations with Mexico, the U.S. agreement with Honduras doesn't require enabling legislation.