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"Texas does lots of things on a grand scale, including executing people," is the title of his latest column.  It appeared in Saturday's Fort Worth Star-Telegram.  Here's an excerpt from this must-read:Last Tuesday, as the state of Texas prepared to execute Terry Lee Hankins, people gathered in several U.S. cities and on two continents to mark a milestone in Rick Perry?s tenure as governor. Hankins, by no means a sympathetic character because of his gruesome crimes, became the 200th person to be executed in Texas since Perry has been in office. He was the 16th to be put to death by the state this year. To mark the occasion, anti-death penalty protests were held in Huntsville; Austin; Houston; Albuquerque, N.M.; Paris; and Leipzig, Germany...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 08, 2009 (boomark / email).