Don’t mess with Texas
Texas snubs the White House and the UN by executing a convicted murderer.
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July 8th, 2011 at 10:14 am
As I recall from the last time this happened, the Texas Governor doesn’t actually have the power to stop this, I think he can do a one-time 30 day stay or something. So framing this as a Perry snub of Obama is wrong. Not that I think he minds.
July 8th, 2011 at 10:27 am
Too bad they weren’t also willing to stop TSA from patting him down on his way to the chamber. Public safety and all.
July 8th, 2011 at 10:48 am
Good!
July 8th, 2011 at 10:59 am
The question now is how is Obama going to punish us? By withholding disaster funds? Oh wait he already did that.
Maybe he can defund SJL’s no public pool should be closed campaign.
July 8th, 2011 at 11:00 am
I think the major snubbing came from the Supreme Court.
“We have no authority to stay an execution in light of an “appeal of the President,” presenting free-ranging assertions of foreign policy consequences, when those assertions come unaccompanied by a persuasive legal claim.”
Awesome.
July 8th, 2011 at 11:05 am
Texas, and Gov. Perry, did not snub anyone with this legal execution of a convicted murderer. Perry followed both state and federal law, the decisions of the courts over the past 17 years, the decisions of the Texas Board of Pardons, as well as public sentiment in allowing this execution to proceed. It is Obama who offends with his unwanted, unsolicited, and extra-legal intrusion into state legal matters who is offensive in this case.
The idea that a person who speaks English, or at least Texan English, who identifies themselves as a Texan through possession of a Texas driver’s license and decades of Texas residence, who does not identify themselves as a Mexican national before conviction, and whose family does not identify him as a Mexican national before conviction, should be able to use his Mexican nationality to overturn his conviction is quite ludicrous. I think the legal term for this attempt at a “get out of execution free card” is a “false pretext.”
July 8th, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Now if we only could have some of these child killers tried in Texas….
July 8th, 2011 at 1:37 pm
1. Obama turns a blind eye to illegal immigration.
2. He refuses to build the border fence.
3. He smuggles guns into Mexico.
4. He tries to get a Mexican national, child rapist/murderer out of the death penalty.
Obama acts like either a President of Mexico on the payroll of the drug cartels, or an anti-American Marxist.
July 8th, 2011 at 2:14 pm
The only problem I have with this is that the State kept him alive and on death row more years than his victim was living.
There is no good reason for his appeal process to have lasted more than 30 days, then the sentence should have been carried out.
July 8th, 2011 at 4:23 pm
+10 points for the Supreme Court.
July 10th, 2011 at 11:41 am
Saw a news story recently how the manufacturer of the lethal injection drugs is no longer making that drug and has relocated to Italy. Some states have switched to the drug used to put down ailing pets, but there are problems with that, too. I think Texas would probably say “ok, Rope. Is there a rope shortage? No? Then hang ’em high…”