Being Liberal and a Progressive in a RED STATE is not an easy thing these days. I started this blog to vent my frustrations on our lives being taken over by right wing conservatives with their propaganda machines. I have also learned an important lesson in the last year, it is that reading is the only way to get real information, you cannot depend on the news you see on TV.

"I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE"....Howard Beale (NETWORK)

Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Supreme Court Bans Death Penalty for Under age - Meet Teens Bush Let Die

Today the Supreme Court Banned the Death Penalty for those under 18.
George bush let 3 teen convicts die during his tenure as Governor of Texas:


Not by a criminal grand jury, and not for any laws that he may have broken during his time in the White House. But make no mistake about it -- the Supreme Court's landmark 5-4 ruling that bars the execution of people who were 17 or younger when they commited their crimes was nothing less than an indictment of Bush's actions as the governor of Texas, actions that even America's highest court now concedes were contrary to international law.

Three young men who were convicted of committing murders when they were just 17 were killed by lethal injection during Bush's tenure as governor, which ran from 1995 through the end of 2000. Two of the three execution victims each had suffered severe head injuries as children -- one the result of alleged extreme child abuse -- and were judged by experts to be mentally impaired or retarded. The third was sentenced to die by a jury because -- according to his defense lawyer -- "he was a black man who killed a white woman, and he was very very gay."

full story:
Meet the 3 teens that Bush executed


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