Perry an “Off with their heads” Tyrant Medina says
The controversy swirling around the Cameron Todd Willingham case has caused all eyes to focus on the question of the death penalty in Texas. But the real question is justice. It is the principal role of government to insure justice and in doing that to protect innocent life. While I will agree that there are some crimes so heinous the death penalty is the only just punishment, we must protect innocent human life. That means suspending the sentence where evidence indicates that there is a shadow of doubt. Governor Perry apparently had the opportunity to do that in this case. He chose not to.
And now five years later just as evidence is to be presented to the Texas Forensic Science Commission the governor has gutted the panel. If the governor cared about justice, he’d work hard to insure that the panel’s work is completed in all due haste, that all the evidence is considered. And if that evidence reveals we have a problem in our criminal justice system, he’d work swiftly to remedy it so as not to ever execute an innocent person. It takes some maturity, some serious maturity to face reality. Texas deserves that in our leader. This constant changing of the guard when he doesn’t like the findings is more evidence that the governor behaves more and more like a tyrant, “off with their heads” when people don’t agree with him. Texas deserves better.
Note: Debra got a lot of coverage on this statement – even on liberal blog posts which agreed with her!
