gm, Whether or not Texas has the death penalty, is not up to Bush. That law was passed by the state Legislature, and Senate, a long time ago, and they are the only ones that can change that according to the constitution of the State of Texas. He did not have the option of declaring a moratorium on executions, like the Governor of Illinois did. Also, there is not option of life in prison without parole, which is what I would prefer. Most, if not all, of the inmates executed during the time Bush was Governor, were sentenced before he was elected to the office, and had used up their one "stay" allowable in the constitution.
No one seems to care if a mad dog is killed. Even though they are classified as human, some criminals are far worse than mad dogs, and because of new translation techniques, that commandment now reads; "You will not murder". This makes sense because, after God gave Moses the Ten Commandments in Exodus, He then gave him a list of people to be killed at the end of Exodus, and the beginning of Leviticus. He would not have asked Moses to break a commandment he had just given him. |
