Talk:Capital punishment in Texas

message: What gives? Execution of certain types of defendants is certainly prohibited by SCOTUS decisions, but many would dispute that it is actually prohibited by COTUS. SCOTUS has reversed itself before, and thus tacitly admitted it was wrong before. Therefore It can be wrong now. My edit was entirely justified. Hoplophile (talk) 17:37, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Please justify the reversal of my edit on this page.

message: Given the FACT that there's approximately three times more chance of a Black African - American ending up on death row in Texas than a white person and that this isn't touched on at all suggests that this is Wikipedia playing politics. The rest of the World accepts that this is a huge problem in Texas, but not Wikipedia! Oh, 'cultural reasons' ... is that what you call lynching Black folk? Culture? I thought Wikipedia was for facts, not selective presentation of one side of a system while taking care not to upset 'sensibilities'?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.125.23.28 (talk) 00:21, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: This page is Political

message: The purpose of the Wikipedia page "Capital punishment in Texas" is stated as "This article is part of WikiProject Texas, a WikiProject related to the U.S. state of Texas." 
With this qualification, "a WikiProject related to the U.S. state of Texas", the relevance of the content of the article, as pertains to capital punishment, is defined as Texas Law and by extension, U.S. Federal Law; as Texas is a member State of the federation of states collectively recognized as the United States of America.  
I edited the opening statement "Capital punishment has been used in the U.S. state of Texas and its predecessor entities since 1819" to read as "Capital punishment has been used in the U.S. state of Texas and its predecessor, the Republic of Texas".  I struck out the phrase "entities since 1819"; because this exceeds the scope of the article, "a WikiProject related to the U.S. state of Texas."  The only predecessor "entity" that might be considered to be legitimately relevant to the State of Texas, is the Republic of Texas.
The Republic of Texas existed from 1836 until 1845; when it was annexed into the Union as a Slave State, rather than a territory, with the option of subdividing into as many as four additional states.  Prior to 1836, much of the present State of Texas, as defined by geographical boundaries, was a territory of Mexico and as such, was governed by Mexican Law.  Hence, to cite "entities since 1819" is to include Mexican Law in a discussion, that by definition, is limited to "the U.S. state of Texas."
Therefore; to cite any predecessor entities to the State of Texas, other than the Republic; is not relevant to Texas Law or US Federal Law, regarding the topic Capital Punishment.  This is vague language and to the casual reader is misleading, in that, it does not indicate that Mexican Law ruled prior to 1836.  As I stated in my original edit justification:  Mexican law is not relevant to Texas or U.S. Federal law, regarding capital punishment, or in any other context...   
Law during the period that Texas was a Territory of Mexico, as administered by Mexico, or briefly by France (as an occupying power of Mexico), is not relevant to this discussion.  Hence, the purpose of my edit--to refer to the Republic of Texas and eliminate any implied reference to the laws of Mexico or other powers, such as France.  Strict adherence to the scope of the article would not even include The Republic; only the period from admission into the Union as a State, from 1845 to present. 
Please justify the reversal of my edit or remove any discussion of law regarding the "U.S. State of Texas", prior to 1845.
68.203.130.22 20:09, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please justify the reversal of my edit on this page. 

message: By far, the article's biggest oversight is the effect of Texas' sheer population.
I read an article some time ago that Oklahoma actually had many more executions per murder convict than Texas and that Texas does not have that many more capital executions than other similarly conservative states.  That, and the article generally reads as some press release by an anti-death-penalty organization. There's no hint of balance in the article and the article's statements use weasel words and few citations.
Also note that I'm saying this as an opponent of the death penalty.
*Since there is no citation for the article, I have deleted the comments. Quidam65 (talk) 16:59, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Texas' population 

message: * Feltz, Renée. "Cracked." Texas Observer. Tuesday January 5, 2010.
* "Execution Brochure." - TDCJ
* "Execution Procedure." - TDCJ (Hosted on third party site) - One thing is that inmates may donate their bodies to the Anatomical Board of The State of Texas
WhisperToMe (talk) 06:18, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: More info

message: "Since that time as of 21 October 2010 (2010 -10-21)[update], 1,215 individuals (all but six of whom have been male) have been executed.[1]"  Why is that (in bold) revelent?  Who cares? Maybe somebody can help me out and tell me. --Paragoalie (talk) 11:39, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question on revelence 

message: Hi. I sort of know what I'm doing with wiki-editing but want to make sure that my copy/paste job from the Carlos DeLuna page actually worked out with the references. The refs seem good on his page but I'm not sure how it auto-works when copy/pasting to another page. Instead of reverting, I'd appreciate a help with fixing if in fact I screwed the pooch. Cheers. For the record I like Texas and don't mind the death penalty. I do mind innocent people being executed. Pär Larsson (talk) 00:21, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
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message: Willingham remains the only person in the United States executed since 1976 for murder by arson.
This isn't true. Asking for someone to correct this.
See Raphael Holiday.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/raphael-holiday-texas-man-executed-for-setting-fire-that-killed-3-children/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:46:8200:F0D:D1E9:2409:3255:A62A (talk) 23:26, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
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