[doc1019]

Knowing Texas, I’m sure the delay will be short.

[bill1952]

Do they still do that candlelight vigil thing there?

I never hear about it in Florida any more, so I guess that it just died out. :)

[Westlander]

‘claims Richard was mentally retarded’

That statement is degrading to mentally handicapped people.

[TheBattman]

Richard was convicted and sentenced to death in 1987. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals threw out his conviction in 1992 because jurors improperly were not allowed to consider evidence that as a child Richard had been abused. In 1995, a second jury convicted him again and again sentenced him to die.

Thrown out because the jury wasn't allowed to consider evidence he was abused as a child? What the heck difference does that make? Does it make the victim any less dead or raped? Does it make her children any less motherless?

And he tried to appeal on the grounds of being mentally retarded? He schemed the whole thing up, staked out the home, waited for the children to leave, raped the victim, shot her, ransacked the home, took property (2 television sets), drove the van away, traded the TVs for cocaine, gave the murder weapon away, and still wants to claim that both he was retarded, and that he didn't do any of it (nor confess)...

The only objection I have is the wimpy method of execution. If only the victim had been shown as much "humane treatment" as those executed now are.

[SmithL]

Review Doesn't Halt Texas Executions