Perry's role in the Texas execution machine

Jason Linkins has a long piece on the execution of Cameron Todd Willingham.

In brief, Perry's role was to abdicate his duty to review evidence that might have saved the life of an innocent man and then used his office to railroad the commission of inquiry set up to review the doubt as to his guilt.

The last Texas governor with a peculiar fascination for executions went on to cause a quarter million deaths in Iraq. Do we really need another one? Particularly one who began his campaign by accusing the Chairman of the Federal Reserve of 'treason' and threatening him with violence?