Perry’s Executions Defy Sense and Conscience: Margaret Carlson
This article is for subscribers only.
Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The most indelible moment of therecent Republican debates -- even more unnerving than the crowdbooing a gay soldier or the eruption of scattered applause inappreciation of the free market ushering a hypothetical patientto his death for lack of insurance -- was Texas Governor RickPerry’s execution answer.
In a debate in September at the Ronald Reagan PresidentialLibrary, moderator Brian Williams tried to pose a question toPerry, beginning: “Your state has executed 234 death rowinmates, more than any other governor in modern times. Have you-- ”