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Texas governor CUCKS OUT; refuses to execute vicious killer:

republicans, defend this indefensible cuckery. this evil so...
heady bronze boltzmann foreskin
  02/22/18
he's probably retarded, and thus, deserves to live
Chartreuse swollen kitchen hairy legs
  02/22/18
Always thought Abbott was at least above average IQ
Talking point
  02/22/18
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spectacular geriatric library police squad
  02/22/18
Maybe he can respond here. He is a poaster
aromatic stag film gaping
  02/22/18
most likely the inmate is white or very affluent
Swashbuckling Pistol Stage
  02/22/18


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Date: February 22nd, 2018 6:49 PM
Author: heady bronze boltzmann foreskin

republicans, defend this indefensible cuckery. this evil son of a bitch murdered HIS OWN FAMILY:

Texas grants clemency to Thomas Whitaker minutes before execution

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has commuted the death sentence of a man who masterminded the murder of his mother and brother after the inmate's father, who barely survived the crime, pleaded for his killer son's life to be spared.

Abbott's decision, announced just a half-hour before Thomas "Bart" Whitaker was set to receive a lethal injection, is only the third time in four decades that a Texas governor has granted clemency to a death-row inmate on humanitarian ground.

Whitaker, 38, will now serve a life sentence without the possibility of parole for the 2003 double murder. Abbott, who has allowed 30 executions to proceed under his watch, said he was partially swayed by the emotional appeal of the inmate's father, Kent Whitaker.

"Mr. Whitaker’s father, who survived the attempt on his life, passionately opposes the execution of his son. Mr. Whitaker’s father insists that he would be victimized again if the state put to death his last remaining immediate family member," the governor said in a statement.

Thomas Whitaker, 38, was convicted of hatching a 2003 plot to murder his wealthy parents and 19-year-old brother for inheritance money. His father was also shot but survived, and this week he convinced the state parole board to recommend a life sentence.

On the night of the killings, Thomas Whitaker's roommate was lying in wait with a loaded gun at the family's suburban Houston home. As they returned from a dinner out, he shot and killed Whitaker's mother, Tricia, and brother, Kevin.

In a clemency petition full of biblical quotations, Whitaker's attorneys said his deeply religious father begged the district attorney's office to seek life in prison for his son and was denied, while the actual gunman escaped a death sentence.

"Imagine two people in your family who you love most. Now, imagine one of them murders the other. There must be punishment. But would you prefer execution? What if that person was your only remaining child?" the lawyers wrote.

The parole board, they said, faced a profound question: "Is clemency warranted where execution might be justice for a wicked crime, yet would also permanently compound the suffering and grief of the remaining victim?"

Kent Whitaker is haunted by the murders of his wife and child, but believes that his older son has changed and that his death would be "meaningless," the petition says.

"Kent lived the assassinations. He watched his son Kevin walk into the house, heard the first and fatal shot, and saw his son's fallen body in their darkened home. He heard Tricia's last, wet coughs as Kent himself lay dying from his own gunshot wound. The bullet hit Kent nearly six inches from his heart," Whitaker's lawyers wrote.

"He also experienced the revelation that his own son was behind the killing of his beloved wife and younger son and his own attempted murder. The crucible of Kent's anguish and tribulations is beyond the ken of our imagination."

The parole board's decision Tuesday was unanimous, and no one seemed more shocked than Kent Whitaker.

"This is Texas," he said then. "This doesn't happen and I am just so encouraged that the system has worked. This was the right thing, the right thing to do."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-death-row-inmate-could-be-spared-after-unusual-appeal-n850276



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 6:50 PM
Author: Chartreuse swollen kitchen hairy legs

he's probably retarded, and thus, deserves to live

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Date: February 22nd, 2018 6:53 PM
Author: Talking point

Always thought Abbott was at least above average IQ

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Date: February 22nd, 2018 6:51 PM
Author: spectacular geriatric library police squad



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Date: February 22nd, 2018 6:56 PM
Author: aromatic stag film gaping

Maybe he can respond here. He is a poaster

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Date: February 22nd, 2018 7:08 PM
Author: Swashbuckling Pistol Stage

most likely the inmate is white or very affluent

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