Death Penalty

Forensic Science Commission Draws Heat

Perry stands by the state Forensic Science Committee even when their flawed science puts people on death row

Even while science cast doubt on his conviction, Perry dubbed the executed Cameron Todd Willingham a "monster" and a "bad man"

Just as the Forensic Science Committee was about to review the Cameron Todd Willingham case, Perry effectively dissolves it

Wrongly convicted of rape, Timothy Cole died in prison and was finally exonerated: Yet Perry fought to deny him a posthumous pardon

Humberto Leal Jr. wasn't the first Mexican national Rick Perry executed. In 2008, José Medellín was sent to the death chamber.

Even when the Board of Pardons and Paroles begs for clemency, Perry sends paranoid schizophrenic Kelsey Patterson to the needle

Ignoring international treaty and the Vienna Convention, Texas keeps foreign nationals on death row

How Alberto Gonzalez and John Cornyn helped shaped and hide the Bush/Perry record on clemency, and how open records laws suffered

Texas hit its 300th execution since 1982 under Perry, and the death rate only sped up

Even though 80% of Texans opposed the death penalty for people with mental retardation, Perry vetoed a bill banning their execution

Perry calls himself "a proponent of capital punishment" even as science casts doubt on death row convictions