Today in injectables: Texas has lost one of its precious resources
Criminals rejoice! It’s all gone. Just like that time the nation ran out of flu vaccine, we’ve exhausted our supply of one of Texas’s most important “unnatural” resources: sodium thiopental. This is...
View ArticleOklahoma challenges Texas’s manhood
As we told you earlier, Texas ran out of a precious resource. Sodium thiopental, a part of the drug cocktail used to put guilty (and sometimes not) criminals to death, is on back order. Hospira, the...
View ArticleTexas death penalty unconstitutional: Hearing coming Monday
We thought this had already been settled, but it appears this whole ‘death-penalty-is-unconstitutional-in-Texas’ thing is gaining some momentum. At a hearing scheduled for next Monday, a Texas district...
View ArticleOf Cats and Criminals: Texas takes better care of its pets
Life would be finer without all of those “alphabet soup” groups — the EPA, PETA, TSA — raining on our freedom parade. Today’s example: The ACLU, arbiters of free speech and quasi-political correctness,...
View Article2.3 million reasons Texas might want to consider sparing the condemned
The bloodlust of a nation has been sated. Ye Gods are now satisfied. And we missed the premier of Simon’s new show, The X Factor, ’cause of this drawn out Troy Davis/Supreme Court deal. Very peeved....
View ArticleTexas has had enough: No more last meals on death row
Government hates waste. So when the now-dead Lawrence Brewer ordered enough food to feed an infantry, eyebrows were raised. Adding to the insulting order: He never ate a damn thing. Texas state Sen....
View ArticleCrisis alert: Texas only has enough left to kill 6.75 people
Enough what? Pentobarbital, silly. It’s part two in the three-part drug cocktail used on Texas’s death row. The state is getting perilously close to running out of the barbiturate used to knock out the...
View ArticleMarvin Lee Wilson: Is Beaumont’s current condemned man mentally retarded?
On Tuesday, Texas will execute Marvin Lee Wilson for the 1992 murder of a confidential Beaumont police informant. Texas is executing people like it is its job. We’re on pace to kill off 17 people by...
View ArticleToo fat to die!
That’s what Ronald Post says. The Ohio murderer should know. He ate his way to over 400 pounds. Says he’s tried everything to lose weight but was impeded by bad knees and back problems. The condemned...
View ArticleWas Duane Buck sentenced to death because he was black?
There is no question of guilt. Duane Buck shot and killed two people and injured a third. His own sister. It happened in July 1995 Houston, Texas. Under the influence of drugs and armed with two...
View ArticleLast statement.
The first entry belongs to Charlie Brooks, Jr. of Tarrant County, Texas. The first part of his statement was written: Statement to the Media: I, at this very moment, have absolutely no fear of what may...
View ArticleTexas death penalty solutions from the past
If you’ve ever had one of your pets “put to sleep”, the vet probably used this drug. Pentobarbital. The state of Texas uses it too. To execute those sentenced to death. But the supply expires next...
View ArticleJefferson County is in the two-percent exclusive club
It amounts to 35 counties in the entire United States. Two percent. The two percent responsible for fifty-two percent of executions. Jefferson County is a member of this exclusive club. We condemn...
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