Texas rejects EU executions plea Options

[schwab]

I wouldnt expect anything else from a texas response

Texas has told the European Union to mind its own business after the bloc called on the state's governor to get rid of the death penalty.

The EU expressed "great regret" at Texas' preparations to carry out its 400th death penalty and renewed its call to the US to halt executions.

Johnny Ray Conner, 32, will be executed on Wednesday for the 1998 fatal shooting of a grocery store clerk.

But Governor Rick Perry insisted it was a "just and appropriate" punishment.

He was responding robustly to the EU's denunciation of judicial killings as "cruel and inhumane".

The statement from the Portuguese presidency of the 27-nation bloc said: "The European Union strongly urges Governor Rick Perry to exercise all powers vested in his office to halt all upcoming executions and to consider the introduction of a moratorium in the state of Texas."

Texans long ago decided the death penalty is a just and appropriate punishment for the most horrible crimes committed against our citizens
Governor's spokesman

It continued: "There is no evidence to suggest that the use of the death penalty serves as a deterrent against violent crime and the irreversibility of the punishment means that miscarriages of justice, which are inevitable in all legal systems, cannot be redressed."

But Robert Black, a spokesman for the Texas governor, told the BBC News website: "Two hundred and thirty years ago, our forefathers fought a war to throw off the yoke of a European monarch and gain the freedom of self-determination.

"Texans long ago decided the death penalty is a just and appropriate punishment for the most horrible crimes committed against our citizens.

"While we respect our friends in Europe ... Texans are doing just fine governing Texas."

According to the Washington-based Death Penalty Information Center, 1,090 executions have taken place in the US since the Supreme Court lifted a ban on capital punishment in 1976.

Texas has carried out more than a third of those.

[FORSAKENR320]

i believe that if someone is deemed worthless to society, won';t contribute, and has a cronic habit of taking away from it, then the death penalty should be used for severe crimes. aggravated sexual assault, murder, etc. i do NOT believe we should keep them waiting for 15 years to "think about it" get it done already. i got $.27 for a bullet, i'll do it. "the time period allows it to sink in that we are gonna kill them!" fuck that. if you need to scare them so that it's punishment, scheduelt them for execution. go through the process, when it comes down actual act and you've DEFINATELY got their attention, take them back to ISOLATION SO THEY CAN"T TALK ABOUT IT TO OTHER INMATES. let them stew over it for 2 days, then take them back and actually execute them.

[THECHICKEN]

i believe that if someone is deemed worthless to society, won';t contribute, and has a cronic habit of taking away from it, then the death penalty should be used for severe crimes. aggravated sexual assault, murder, etc. i do NOT believe we should keep them waiting for 15 years to "think about it" get it done already. i got $.27 for a bullet, i'll do it. "the time period allows it to sink in that we are gonna kill them!" fuck that. if you need to scare them so that it's punishment, scheduelt them for execution. go through the process, when it comes down actual act and you've DEFINATELY got their attention, take them back to ISOLATION SO THEY CAN"T TALK ABOUT IT TO OTHER INMATES. let them stew over it for 2 days, then take them back and actually execute them.

What happens when you murder a person who is innocent because theres no time for a correct appeals process to clear the person? Too bad, so sad?

[FORSAKENR320]

What happens when you murder a person who is innocent because theres no time for a correct appeals process to clear the person? Too bad, so sad?

how often does this happen? RARELY and it's almost always covered in the news for about 3 damn weeks.


and what about that case i've been hearing about, where suddenly right before the guy is gonna be executed, several witnesses suddenly remembered AFTER 15 YEARS! "oh, this is how it actually happened"

one reason our capitalism works is because we put a deadline on almost anything. get rid of the damn procrastination. if it was only 5 years before this guy got executed, would those witneses had their "brain farts" at that time? pretty damn likely, giving the convienience of the circumstances. give an american man a week to mow the lawn, i can (almost) guarantee he'll wait until the 7th day to do it.