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tacocat  ·  3720 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Will Texas execute a mentally ill man?

I watched a show last night where Christopher Hitchens toured Texas. A lawyer was given a gun used to kill a man by the judge after the shooter was acquitted based on the testimony of the local sheriff that the man was no good and deserved to die.

We just killed a man here in Georgia who was borderline retarded an no one batted much of an eye. And we have nowhere near the reputation of Texas.