Texas: A state without conscience

Metro NY ^ | June, 22, 2011 | Tony Metcalf, Editor

[lonestar]

“I never meant to hurt you,” Mathis, strapped to a gurney with tubing taped to his arms, told Almaguer. “You were just at the wrong place at the wrong time.”....

Nobody with a 62 IQ could make that statement.

[Doe Eyes]

Shockingly, this murderer with an IQ of 65 was a black man.

[Texas Songwriter]

He was mentally competent to find a crack house and pursue its product. He was mentally competent to obtain a weapon and to produce a loaded gun when he determined he needed to use it to save him from the trouble which he determined he would encounter if they were to finger him in the crack purchace. That is a fairly linear line of thinking which would lead one to believe this persons cognitive ability was intact and he used them and he acted upon his perceived fear of being found out.

[Texas Songwriter]

Yes......but this proves Ron White is wrong.....you really can fix stupid.

[The Theophilus]

Instead of running for president of the failed USA, Perry should be investigating the documents annexing Texas in 1845 to see if any loopholes can be found that would free us from the coming financial fate of this country.

I was thinking the same thought. Wouldn't it be a dramatic step down from President of a growing Texas nation to the soon to be bankrupt and at civil war united States?

Without TX dragging the rotting corpse of the other forty-nine states, we could be free to be that shining light in a dark world.

[BelegStrongbow]

By ending it, I suppose. Sure wish there was a way to actually fix and reuse.

[Lancey Howard]

Typical drivel from a typical NYC homo publication.

[Ditter]

If I remember from when Bush was been raked over the coals for not stopping an execution, the Governor of Texas only has the authority to grant a 3 day stay of execution. He can't stop it or give a pardon.

[Ditter]

typo...... was ‘being’ raked over the coals.

[giotto]

So if you kill in cold blood - no matter what your mental capacity is, you are a killer.

If you’re drunk and you kill, you’re a killer

If you’re high and you kill, you’re a killer

If you’re insane and kill, you’re a killer

If you were abused and you kill, you’re a killer.

Seems pretty straightforward to me. Of course, I'm from Texas, so I guess I'm not morally qualified to judge.

[jspyrogram]

“Although the issue is controversial, it’s a sign that the state is civilized and considerate, understanding that people should be allowed to love each other whatever their sexual orientation.”

Civilized and considerate means being allowed to indoctrinate our children with marches of Gay pride? To have your congressman and senator march alongside those that dress up as a gigantic green penis or half-naked men dressed as women gyrating in front our children??? THAT is NOT civilized nor is it considerate!! Look to Massachusetts and the Department of Education teaching our children how to have homosexual relations - is that what a civilized and considerate society teaches the children? Schools cannot teach morals and values, but they CAN teach that homosexuality is perfectly fine and by the way, let me teach you how to do it too????? It’s no wonder there are so many people sitting on death row...they weren’t taught how to be civilized and considerate...only how to live a hedonist life-style.

[Cronos]

Only about half-way through the article does one read this: To be fair, the executed man, Milton Mathis, is not exactly the sort you'd want your daughter bringing home. He shot dead two people in a Houston crack house, and left a 15-year-old girl paralyzed.

oh, THAT was the reason this guy was executed? For killing 2 and leaving a young girl paralyzed.... man, the lib media are scum

[Cronos]

Yes, God bless Texas -- the slimy reporter says But he had an IQ of 62. Psychologists routinely regard any adult with an IQ under 70 as being mentally handicapped. Mathis could not perform some of the most basic functions, such as dressing himself. -- so, the guy was unable to perform some basic functions like dressing himself, but he could still TAKE A GUN AND SHOOT TWO PEOPLE DEAD? And paralyze a young girl? ok, that's mentally capable enough for him to constitute a continuing threat. Texas was right -- and the only way to spin this the other way is to hide the fact of his murders

The lib reporter goes on to say Mathis should have been detained for a very long time in a secure mental hospital, and he should have received treatment or therapy for his disability before, if and when it was deemed fit and proper, he was released into the community. WHAT??? released back again so he could commit more murders???

[Cronos]

So if you kill in cold blood - no matter what your mental capacity is, you are a killer.

Exactly -- it's not like this guy committed manslaugher inadvertently. He took up a gun and shot two people dead and paralyzed a third. That's a killer.

There ARE mentally handicapped folks who don't know and say push someone down a staircase -- they get mental hospitals for life, but this Mathis guy is a killer, full stop.

[Cronos]

Heh.heh. Good catch. And you’re right — they are free to love anyone. ‘Gay marriage’ on the other hand is the same as ‘man-goat marriage’ — illogical, and against God

[donmeaker]

because he would donate his penis to tony Metcalf?

[donmeaker]

In a perfect world there would be no crime. In a slightly less perfect world the perp would be shot just before he could complete the crime.

[ZULU]

Pray for Perry.

All of the candidates running under the GOP aegis have, as all humans, flaws. But AT THIS POINT, Perry appears to be the BEST candidate who has the BEST crack at flushing that SOB Obama out of the White House. He also has the BEST chance of beating out RINOS Romney, Julie-Annie, Pawlenty, Huntsman and Christie (YES - he's running)in the primary

I agree with him - to an extent. But CERTAIN rights like the Second Amendment - are inviolable. They are GOD-GRANTED, not government dispensed. As such only GOD can take them away. Such rights must be enforced nationally.

The problem I have with the Death Penalty is the unsettling fact that a number of individuals who were convicted of serious crimes and sent to prison, have recently been exonerated and released due to genetic evidence that were innocent. Once somebody is executed, an error can not be corrected. The government, as all conservatives will agree, is FAR from flawless. In addition, taking a life, aside from self-defense, defense of another, or in warfare, is a power only God should have - not a government run by flawed human beings.