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Flashback: Bill Clinton?s 1992 execution gambit

Flashback: Bill Clinton?s 1992 execution gambit On this date in 1992 Ricky Ray Rector was executed. Rector was severely mentally handicapped due to an attempted suicide that left him effectively lobotomized. When Rector?s execution day approached, he was given the standard last meal. For dessert, he was offered a slice of pecan pie, which he moved to the window sill of his holding cell. When asked why he was not eating his pie, he remarked that he was ?saving it? for ?after the execution.? Enter the 1992 Presidential Elections, Bill Clinton?s campaign on the ropes in New Hampshire, as well as Clinton?s need to look tough and ?not pull a Dukakis? on the issue of the death penalty. Clinton interrupted campaigning in New Hampshire to fly home to preside over the execution of the mentally challenged Rector...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on January 25, 2008 (boomark / email).