[Cincinatus' Wife]

This isn’t Perry’s first execution.

Oct 2009: “In nearly nine years as Texas governor, Rick Perry has never spared a life based on a claim of innocence and only once delayed an execution in such a case, according to a Chronicle review of public records, clemency statistics and information from the governor’s office.

During that same period, officials in other death penalty states granted clemency for humanitarian reasons at least 200 times — 171 based on questions of innocence in Illinois alone.”......

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6673053.html

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July 5, 2011.......”Acting without a pardons board recommendation, Gov. Rick Perry could grant a 30-day stay. His spokeswoman, Katherine Cesinger, said the governor has not yet decided, but historically he rarely grants such requests.”........

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6673053.html

[Ditter]

I knew someone would correct me if I was wrong. :)