Bush = Death

Bush = Death:

While I was surfing around Lew Rockwell’s site (see previous post), I found this nugget in his 2000 archives. As governor of Texas, Bush led that state to the dubious honor of having the highest number of executions in the country. (An honor his brother Jeb in Florida has since been trying to match.)

Bush Loved Executing PeopleI’ve always thought that Bush’s making fun of a young woman he had just killed was instructive.

This from George Will’s column of August 12th, 1999 …

[Tucker] Carlson reports asking Bush whether he met with any persons who came to Texas to protest the execution of the murderer Karla Faye Tucker. Bush said no, adding: “I watched (Larry King’s) interview with (Tucker), though. He asked her real difficult questions, like ‘What would you say to Governor Bush?’ ” Carlson asked, “What was her answer?” and writes:

“‘Please,’ Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, ‘don’t kill me.’”

Hughes, who says Bush’s decision not to commute Tucker’s sentence was “very difficult and very emotional,” says Carlson’s report is “a total misread” of Bush. Carlson, who describes Bush as “smirking,” says: “I took it down as he said it….”

Perhaps the single most outrageous execution, however, was when Bush refused to grant a stay (much less grant clemency) to a retarded man.

For a little more background on how the “pro life” candidate values life, here is an article from 2000 which originally appeared in the New York Times.

Texas Executions: GW Bush Has Defined Himself, Unforgettably, As Shallow And Callous….In his five years as governor of Texas, the state has executed 131 prisoners — far more than any other state. [Actually, the final count was 152 executions--ggb] Mr. Bush has lately granted a stay of execution for the first time, for a DNA test [this stay occurred when Bush was campaigning for President--ggb].

In answer to questions about that record, Governor Bush has repeatedly said that he has no qualms. “I’m confident,” he said last February, “that every person that has been put to death in Texas under my watch has been guilty of the crime charged, and has had full access to the courts.”

….The Chicago Tribune published a compelling report on an investigation of all 131 death cases in Governor Bush’s time. It made chilling reading.

In one-third of those cases, the report showed, the lawyer who represented the death penalty defendant at trial or on appeal had been or was later disbarred or otherwise sanctioned. In 40 cases the lawyers presented no evidence at all or only one witness at the sentencing phase of the trial.

In 29 cases, the prosecution used testimony from a psychiatrist who — based on a hypothetical question about the defendant’s past — predicted he would commit future violence. Most of those psychiatrists testified without having examined the defendant: a practice condemned professionally as unethical.

Other witnesses included one who was temporarily released from a psychiatric ward to testify, a pathologist who had admitted faking autopsies and a judge who had been reprimanded for lying about his credentials…..

Some questions to consider before you go to the polls: Why does Bush care more about the lives of the unborn than the lives of the already born? How does a callous attitude towards American prisoners translate into, oh, say, what we saw at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo?

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well he is probably a sociopath or something isn’t he? that’s what this points to to me? no one should be this callous toward life and human capacity. especially someone who thinks all human life has dignity…… for some reason i think that bush does not think everyone is equal…. do you?