Q: Your state has executed 234 death row inmates. Have you struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any one of those might have been innocent?
PERRY: "No, sir. I've never struggled with that at all. The state of Texas has a very thoughtful, a very clear process in place--when someone commits the most heinous of crimes against our citizens, they get a fair hearing, they go through an appellate process, they go up to the Supreme Court of the US, if that's required But in the state of Texas, if you come into our state and you kill one of our children, you kill a police officer, you're involved with another crime and you kill one of our citizens, you will face the ultimate justice in the state of Texas, and that is, you will be executed."
As long as the death penalty is a focus. Why is it that murder of an adult does not carry the brevity of any other murder unless there is another crime involved? Why the incremental degree of difference in the Texas law? They have record numbers of executions, but, I found that reality odd. Why is an adult murder not treated the same and execution an exemption?
khou.com
Posted on April 12, 2012 at 6:27 PM
HOUSTON—Rev. Jesse Jackson is calling (click title to entry - thank you) for the repeal of all the nation’s “stand your ground” laws and is sharply criticizing the castle doctrine that applies in Texas.
“These laws incentivize vigilantism,” Jackson said. “Take the law into your own hands, kill or be killed. That’s beneath the civility of a great nation.”
Jackson’s remarks at a Houston church came on the same day as the first court appearance of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with murdering teenager Trayvon Martin in a racially charged Florida shooting. Meanwhile, new details emerged in court papers....
Perhaps in Texas any murdered adult is seen as contributing to the act as if incited. Even with that 'institutional doubt' added as a measure in the society in Texas, there is that much of a difference?
Well, we know what will happen after November 2012 when the GOP demands "Stand Your Ground" for the entire country, now, don't we?
Campaign grows to expand Stand Your Ground gun laws nationwide (click here)
- Article by: ERICA GOODE , New York Times
- Updated: April 12, 2012 - 9:54 PM
- Wisconsin state Sen. Jon Erpenbach, a Democrat, who says the state's so-called Stand Your Ground statute was a substantial victory for the National Rifle Association in the Midwest, where guns have a less central place say than Texas, outside the State Capitol in Madison, Wis., April 4, 2012.
No one had yet heard of a Florida teenager named Trayvon Martin when a group of Wisconsin Republicans got together last year to discuss expanding a self-defense bill before the state Legislature.
The bill, known as the Castle Doctrine, made it harder to prosecute or sue people who used deadly force against an intruder inside their house. But the Wisconsin legislators, urged on by the National Rifle Association in a series of meetings, wanted it to go further. They crafted an amendment that extended the bill's protections to include lawns, sidewalks and swimming pools outside the residence, as well as vehicles and places of business....
Maybe in Texas murder of an adult carries less brevity of the death sentence, because, anyone can easily own and carry a weapon and it is a matter of the luck of the draw and/or the foolishness not to 'conceal carry.'
The wild west returns.
Caucasian men in any election cycle will vote to prove their power and strength over reason any day of the week.
Maybe in Texas murder of an adult carries less brevity of the death sentence, because, anyone can easily own and carry a weapon and it is a matter of the luck of the draw and/or the foolishness not to 'conceal carry.'
The wild west returns.
Caucasian men in any election cycle will vote to prove their power and strength over reason any day of the week.
