Convicted killer Joseph Stanley Faulder became the...

Convicted killer Joseph Stanley Faulder became the first Canadian in almost a half-century to be executed in the United States. Faulder, 61, died by lethal injection on June 17 for the 1975 murder of an elderly Texas woman. Faulder was pronounced dead at 6:18 p.m., 6 minutes after the flow of lethal drugs began. He coughed twice, let out two gasps and then stopped moving. The Canadian government protested that Mr. Faulder's rights were violated when state officials failed to notify him of his right to contact Canadian consular officials at the time of his arrest. The right is specified under terms of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, a treaty whose signatories include the United States. It wasn't until 15 years later that his family, who believed he was long dead, and the Canadian government discovered he was alive.