On March 31, 2004, the International Court of Justice will issue a ruling in a case brought by Mexico against the United States involving 52 Mexicans on death row in various U.S. states. The Court is the highest legal organ of the United Nations and is based in The Hague. Mexico has argued that the defendants are entitled to retrials because they were not informed of their right to talk to consular officials after being arrested, as provided by the Vienna Convention on Consular Rights. Last year, the Court ordered the U.S. to stay the executions of three Mexicans deemed in imminent danger, and it reserved the right to intervene in dozens of other cases. Oklahoma recently defied this order and set a May 18 execution date for Osvaldo Torres, a Mexican foreign national. (Reuters, March 22, 2004) See Foreign Nationals and International Death Penalty.