The Student Magazine of the Washington College of Law. Maybe the state takes glee in informing the general public about its' inmates' diets. Or perhaps, this is Texas' way of showing its statehood pride and warning all those who cross its' borders that you may be next. And George W. Bush, as the state's governor, refuses to let their small execution chambers go to waste.
Most people know that America's lone star state has the largest execution rate in the country.
In fact, since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, Governor Bush has presided over almost one-fifth of all U.S. executions. Pretty good I would say. He has been the proud owner of virtually 140 petitions for clemency as governor. Close to all of them. In fact, in the last two years, only two death row sentences were commuted to life in prison.