Texas Death Row Steps Up Executions

In Texas, the crowd in death row is thinning out. That is what they need to do in California where inmates have been on death row as long as 19 years. In the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's so called "death watch" cells, a dozen condemned inmates are being executed at a scheduled rate of two a week over six weeks.

I am totally for the death penalty as it is according to the Bible. People often quote only the first verse about vengence is mine says the Lord, and they don't continue on to read that if a man takes a man's life, he shall give up his own. That is capital punishment.

The week of October 13, two were executed. Two were scheduled for this week and two more the week after that. Then six more in November, adding to Texas' standing as the nation's most active death penalty state. I say good for them. I am all for it. There are some people who feel sorry for the poor condemned man while totally forgetting those they killed. What about them?

U.S. Wavered over South Korean Executions

The American Colonel, troubled by what he was hearing, tried to stall at first. However, the declassified record shows he finally told his South Korean counterpart that it would be permitted to machine-gun 3500 political prisoners, to keep them from joining approaching enemy forces. This may sound harsh, but this is war. Other American officers observed that in the early days of the Korean War, a secretive slaughter believed to have killed 100,000 or more leftists and supposed sympathizers, usually without charge or trial, happened in a few weeks in mid-1950. This was photographed and confidentially reported on such wholesale executions by their South Korean ally. They found through extensive research that Gen. Douglas MacArthur took no action to stop the mass killing. The knowledge of this reached top levels of the Pentagon and State Department in Washington, where it was classified as secret and filed away.