ICYMI: Rick Perry celebrates a major milestone
by digby
A big day the governor:
Texan authorities on Wednesday executed 41-year-old Donnie Roberts, convicted of murdering his girlfriend in 2003, by giving a lethal injection.
It was the 250th execution carried out in the U.S. state of Texas under the rule of Governor Rick Perry, and the first Halloween execution since death penalty was reinstated.
In less than a dozen years, Texas has executed more than twice as many prisoners than any other U.S. state has executed in three-and-a-half decades.
There are many leaders who can be held responsible for more deaths, usually in war. But it's a rare one who can claim to have personally signed the death warrants of 250 people and seen them executed. I don't know who hold the record of prisoners put to death in America but I've got to guess that Rick Perry is right up there.
But don't worry. Even if you aren't squeamish about the state rather randomly killing people in large numbers in order to send a message that killing people is wrong, the good news is that our legal system is so airtight, so incorruptible and just that it is impossible for any mistakes to ever be made. So at least there's that.
Congratulations to Governor Rick Perry. I know you are a very big time Christian. I hope for your sake you haven't misread what Jesus thought about murder because if you did you are in for a big surprise on Judgment Day.
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