• Flying Squid
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    3422 days ago

    The parole board has recommended clemency in a death row case only six times since the state resumed executions in 1982. In three of those cases — in 1998, 2007 and 2018 — death row inmates had their sentences commuted to life in prison within days of their scheduled executions. In two of the cases — from 2004 and 2009 — then-Texas Gov. Rick Perry rejected the parole board’s recommendation to commute a death sentence to life in prison and the two prisoners were executed.

    In 2019, the parole board recommended a 120-day reprieve for Rodney Reed, just days before his scheduled execution. But the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed Reed’s execution before Abbott could take any action on the board’s recommendation.

    Savages.

      • @[email protected]
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        222 days ago

        Yeah all the Texans are big and bad until it’s time to run into a school shooting, amiright?

        Texas lowers the standard of America.

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          121 days ago

          Yes you’re right all millions of people there equally bad yep that’s not braindead at all nope

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        522 days ago

        You just don’t turn down an execution for any reason in Texas. We just love execution too damn much, too much damn fun. Falsified evidence? Doesn’t matter, calendar says EXECUTION so somebody’s getting crispy

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          322 days ago

          Back in the good ol’ days, your family could pay a fee to have an Oklahoman fried in your place.

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          222 days ago

          As I have quoted for years, “I’ll believe corporations are people, when Texas executes one.”