The Texas death penalty is alive and well. Yesterday there were ten women on Texas' death row. Today there are only nine. Frances Newton, charged with the slayings of her huband and two children 18 years ago, was executed Wednesday evening.
On Monday the Austin American Statesman newspaper called for a new trial for Newton saying, "The public cannot be certain of her guilt, but she's going to die for the crime anyway. Newton was denied a basic requirement for a fair trial - a competent lawyer."
"I know I did not murder my kids and my family," she had told The Associated Press in an earlier interview.
Whether Frances Newton was guilty or innocent doesn't matter. Justice in Texas has once more been served. Newton was the 13th person executed here this year. Ten more are scheduled to join her in the next two months.
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The USA is one of the few (are there any?) industrialized countries without a national health plan-unless the ownership society "health savings accounts" qualify as a "plan." At the same time the USA is one of the few (are there any?) western countries that maintains and sanctions cold blooded killing, AKA, capital punishment. Is there a connection?
Well, say we race all the way to the bottom so that no employer has to be at a competitive didadvantage by offering health plan coverage.
Then,let's have everyone get sicker quicker at the front end and then execute them at the rear end. Either way it's the shaft!
nomindleftbehind
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