Grim milestone: Texas set to execute 500th inmate

Yahoo News (AP) ^ | 6/25/2013 | MICHAEL GRACZYK

[South40]

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Jim Willett remembers the night of Dec. 6, 1982, when he was assigned to guard a mortuary van that had arrived at the death house at the Huntsville prison.

"I remember thinking: We're really going to do this. This is really going to happen," says Willett, who was a captain for the Texas Department of Corrections.

When the van pulled away early the next morning, it carried to a nearby funeral home the body of convicted killer Charlie Brooks, who had just become the first Texas prisoner executed since a Supreme Court ruling six years earlier allowed the death penalty to resume in the United States.

[South40]

Perhaps I missed it but I don't recall a similar stories coming from the leftist media denouncing milestones in the numbers of innocents killed each year through abortion.

The left mourns the deaths of these convicted murderers but they happily defend the killing of the most innocent among us. If that's not evidence of a backwards ideology I don't know what it.

[montag813]

Grim? This should be celebrated.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

God bless Texas.

[denydenydeny]

*LIKE*

[headstamp 2]

Let’s have a big barbecue to honor the occasion!

[A_Former_Democrat]

“Grim”?

Unless the author is referring to the horrendous crimes committed and the suffering of the victims and families

That’s what’s “grim”

[dfwgator]

[MeganC]

Whoo-hoo! Five Hundred!! Don’t mess with Texas ‘cause they’re going for the record!!!

[humblegunner]

We prefer to think of it as “Permanent Rehabilitation”.

[DoodleDawg]

Texas used to post the last meal requests of all executed inmates. I miss that.

[dfwgator]

I don’t. They should just serve them some molded bread and water for their final meal.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

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[CrazyIvan]

No mention of the the families who have some consolation in the fact that the murderer who broke their hearts will not shatter another family.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

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[Uncle Miltie]

Has any one of the murders executed ever been pothumously proved innocent?

(*crickets chirping*)

[I want the USA back]

The grim milestone is the people murdered. Executions are to bring about justice.

[Night Hides Not]

I’m a bit disappointed myself. The number should be larger...much larger.

[Secret Agent Man]

they’d be even safer if that number was higher.

leftists only do deathwatch counts on criminals and when republican presidents are in office.

they won’t do deathwatch counts on innocent civillians murdered by criminals, abortions, or any other thing that would challenge their world view.

[yoe]

What grim about this man impending death, his crime? His room and board for all these years will be off the taxpayer’s back....celebrate!

[ScottinVA]

Grim......how?