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Did Someone Not Get the Memo? 

Richard Whittaker  Wed Aug 29, 3:29pm , 2007
Tags: Death Penalty, Governor's Office


Lt. Gov. Dewhurst: A consistent policy is more important than logical consistency.
On Aug. 22, Gov. Rick Perry's press guy sent out a press-release bitch slap to the European Union for daring to comment on the death penalty in Texas. "While we respect our friends in Europe," said flack-in-chief Robert Black, "welcome their investment in our state and appreciate their interest in our laws, Texans are doing just fine governing Texas.”

On Aug. 24, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst put out a gushing press release applauding Circuit Judge Richard Howard for handing down the death penalty on John Couey, the Florida man convicted of raping and murdering nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford. "Jessica's murder was a horrible, horrible crime," said Dewhurst, "and I commend the jury and judge for their actions."

So asking a state not to perform executions, bad; encouraging a state to do them, good. Just so we know.

 

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And thus, we become an Onion joke Lee Nichols Aug 29, 2007 - 04:10 pm
http://www.theonion.com/content/amvo/texas_executes_400th_convict

Texans ARE doing just fine! Mer Sep 06, 2007 - 12:16 pm
In what other state do politicians duke it out (literally) on the chamber floor? It's like the circus! Circuses are my favorite!



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