Argentina Backs Texas Death Row Prisoner at U.S. Supreme Court

Racism, mental health issues, and years of convoluted litigation are nothing new for a U.S. death penalty case, but Victor Saldaño’s has something extra: a foreign government fighting for his life.

Argentina has for decades backed its citizen, who faces execution in Texas following “a generation of legal gymnastics,” as one of his lawyers put it.

Saldaño’s latest appeal is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, and he hopes the weight of a country behind him helps win the justices over.

“It’s this amazing situation where a foreign government, looking after the interests of one of its citizens, brought ...