While reading many articles of the death sentence for Duane Edward Buck I was impelled to read about the death penalty in general and Governor Rick Perry’s standing, or rather influence, on it.
I found an article by Brandi Grissom, Under Perry, Executions Raise Questions, in which she explains some of the history of Rick Perry’s numerous amount of times in which he refused granting clemency or other justice-prone requests. According to a spokeswoman for Rick Perry, he has disagreed only three times for clemency with accordance to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. However, there have been a good 234 executions under his governance, the highest number under any governor in the whole nation! Grissom also gives us examples of four different times in which the patient had either a mental incapacity, was a juvenile at the time of the murder, was not the shooter, or his counsel was questionable. None of which were given clemency, a sentence to life in prison, or a 30-day reprieve delaying the execution.
This article is extremely important due to the fact that so many people have been killed in a matter of 11 years, some having been innocent and not having a second chance by the government. The article also includes a Visualization in which it shows all the victims of the death penalty, their stories, and their last statements.
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