The Texas legal system is the best in the country because it is one of the most strict, non-liberal and constitutional court system in the United States. The Texas court system is also known for prosecuting criminals to the fullest extent of the law and therefore has some of the lowest crime rates in the nation, when compared to other states with similar population according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The state of Texas also believes highly in the death penalty and it seems that no matter what jurors are on the stand of a murder trial, the verdict is most likely to come out the same, the death penalty for anyone who deserves it. Who decides who deserves to die? The answer is the jurors, of course. After all, jurors are randomly selected Texas residents and therefore an accurate voice of the general population of Texas. Lately it seems that Texas has been slacking off on their criminal slaying duties.
A blog I recently read on in thepinktexas.com called “die another day” is a quick shot at the appeals over recent lethal injection “upset” here on the planet Texas. I say upset for the fact Texas has halted sending someone into the great beyond. This hasn’t happened in almost thirty years! The pink lady said it best in her opening statement, “Prosecutors all over Texas are mourning the loss of capital punishment on demand since the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled to stay the lethal injection of a 28-year-old man convicted of killing a store manager. Obviously the high court has been infiltrated by murderer-thug-loving liberals.” Attorneys for Carlton Turner Jr., 28, had appealed to the high court hoping that its planned review of lethal injection procedures in Kentucky, the same process used in Texas, could keep him alive.
So here we are with a parent slaying criminal that was set to be executed and he is still alive? This doesn’t sound like the tough Texas we all know and love. The Texas legal system is buckling at the knees because of another state. After state courts earlier that week refused to halt the punishment, Turner's lawyers went to the Supreme Court, which on Tuesday agreed to review an appeal from two condemned inmates in Kentucky who argued that the three-drug process used in lethal injection is unconstitutionally cruel. The same procedure is used in Texas."All I can say is all glory to God,” at least that is what Turner told prison officials as he was being returned to death row, in another prison about 45 miles east of Huntsville, which is home to Texas executions. Turner would have been the 27th Texas inmate to be executed in 2007 and the second the week of October 2nd. The first guy that week wasn’t so lucky because his lawyer lady couldn’t make the five o’ clock deadline the court of appeals has. I hope she didn’t get paid too much because her client is now filled with the finest juice Texas has to offer any man.
Where does Texas Supreme court get most of its guidance? The same place most national laws come from, the United States Supreme court. Texas Supreme Court’s recent decision to halt executions is all happening because members of the United States Supreme Court decided to consider executions in Kentucky and whether or not they will be constituted as cruel and unusual punishment under the constitution. Well, it certainly wasn’t cruel and unusual punishment when Turner decided to “whack” his foster parent at the wonderful ages of 40 and 43 when he was a blistering 19 years old. Come on Texas, eye for an eye. You haven’t cared about the feelings of criminals, especially murderers, in thirty years and all of the sudden it might suck to die by the current lethal juice so you pull the plug. Texas already caved in to earlier forms of scrutinizing the way we kill off death row, one by one, by giving folks the juice instead of juicing them full of sweet tax payer voltage. I fear we, the great state of Texas, may be getting soft in our old age.
Two more executions are scheduled for the year and we still don’t know if they will go through. For now we will just have to sit and wait to juice people until the Supreme Court decided whether or not death row deserves to die better or not. Who knows what Texas will bow down to next? Will this new attitude give murderous criminals free range because they know that they won’t be put to death if caught and prosecuted? States don’t produce some of the lowest crime levels in the country by going soft on their criminals, especially Texas. Texas shouldn’t change its policies on executions. This state should just keep doing what its doing because it’s doing it right.
