Well, I am proud, damn I thought I could use that word with our country in the title, horrified to say that the U.S. is more in common with countries that have no “real civil rights” than the country we called our home 20 years ago. This list of countries represent those who put to death the most citizens in 2007, strange I could have sworn the number was higher. Ah, now I know why, I keep forgetting my birthplace, my home turf, good old Texas. With state sponsored execution on the downfall in the U.S. the wonderful Republic of Texas is trying to buck the trend. Over 60% of death penalties carried out in our country happen in the State of Texas, take a second to ask yourself why.

Judge Sharon Keller and Michael Richard

One simple and shocking word, BUSH!

I lived in Texas pre-Bush as governor as well as during his election run in 1999. I can tell you that his attitude towards human life is beyond reprehensible. He is the one that “ramped up” the amount of executions that were taking place in his “home state”, why? Texas has a population of right around twenty four million people yet execute 60 +% of all the people in the country. Is it because Texas has a huge violent crime problem? Because of it’s proximity to the U.S./Mexican border? Or is it because a Fascist regime has been in control for far too long?

Personally I am on the fence regarding executions, my heart tells me that there is a better way but my brain tells me that some people do not deserve to breath air on this earth. What I have a serious issue with is that murderers and rapists are released from prison daily due to overcrowding yet citizens that have been convicted of a “drug crime” remained locked up on our tax dollar. How does this even remotely make sense?

Is it coincidence that these same countries are countries that Bush and the administration are buddying up to? Iran is the exception but there is another reason for that, McBush will save us from that evil, don’t you worry…. zzz …. zzz

Seriously, I can’t go off on a tangent and get off topic as it would do these statistics an injustice. Just remember when you watch the news and see the atrocities take place in the countries listed above that WE ARE NO DIFFERENT. Time to make a change, away from the Fascist path we are heading and towards the democratic society that we ONCE were.

A man fearing he could be next on the execution list