Johnny Conner was pronounced dead at 1820 pm (2320 GMT), eight minutes after he was injected with the lethal concoction...
....Since the 1976 reinstatement, Texas has accounted for more than one-third of the total 1091 executions carried out country-wide. This year, with other states now reticent, it will account for nearly two-thirds.
Now if Mr. Conner were a stem cell, hell Bush’d take off from his vacation and helicopter in to breast feed him, Megachurch priests in tow. But now that he is a criminal and Bush is all churched up you still won’t hear and vaguely Christian themes. Like forgiveness. Or Love. When Republicans are in power, people die. Iraqis. Americans. It doesn’t matter. As long as someone in a blue suit in a conservative church in Texas feels justice is being delivered at the end of some other Christian’s terrible swift sword.
Texas is the shame of the Republic.
Link :http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070823/ts_alt_afp/usjusticeexecution_070823004059
Of course Christian and Conservative groups stood outside the facility and cheered. But what else did you expect from religious extremists who think the entire Bible consists of the phrase 'eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth'?