Rick Perry has presided over 234 executions as governor of Texas, with Duane Buck to be put to death on Thursday. We look at some of the individuals who have died on Perry's watch. When Republican voters at a televised presidential nomination debate last week heard that Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, had presided over 234 executions – the highest number for any governor in modern times – they cheered. They might not have been so enthusiastic had they known the details of some of the individuals who have died on Perry's watch.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/15/texas-executions-controversial-cases
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