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Stephen Cooper

Texas Bloodlust Usurps Prosecutorial Discretion

In a civilized Texas, the death penalty would be abolished. A vestige of slavery, the unjust consequences of capital punishment infects the legal system like cancerous tumors.

The vindictive, morally bankrupt decision to extinguish life in the name of “justice” will someday—I’m sure of it—be stripped from the state’s criminal code, taken from the hands of fallible mortals, where it never should have been.

On October 3, the Texas parole board unanimously denied John Ramirez’s request for clemency. (Credit: U.S. Marine Corps)
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