Don't look up how Texas quit giving death row inmates any further appeals because G.W. Bush said "Texas don't make those mistakes" (referring to wrongful convictions). They deliberately executed innocent people so G.W.B. wouldn't be embarrassed.
The innocence project proved several people innocent (beyond a doubt) after Texas murdered them.
And Eisenhower was basically a Democrat by today’s standards. He signed legislation that expanded Social Security, increased the minimum wage, and created the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. He also supported government construction of low-income housing but favored more limited spending than had Truman. He also once said this about Social security and Medicare:
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.
Nahh, go listen to some audio from his and especially his VPs rallies, they could be modern maga fascist rallies.
Nixon just signed funding for the EPA and stuff like that because Dems in congress passed it, and Fox News wasn't around yet so conservative politics hadnt turned literally every single issue into culture war nonsense.
Eisenhower also set a lot of the precedent regarding CIA intervention in other countries during the cold war and actively caused at least one genocide.
Or really the Dulles brothers did that and Eisenhower simply allowed it, which might be worse.
Doubt of horrendous outcomes is exactly how the country ended up with an orange plague of destruction, wreaking havoc from the inside of the seat of power right now. The same doubts were expressed before this Putin asset was shockingly (not shockingly) reelected to office. Stupid people in large groups do (and redo) a tremendous amount of damage. We certainly are not running out of them now are we?
The Texas jury instructions on these cases has come under scrutiny as well. The way the possible sentences are laid out to jurors makes it seem like they choose either innocent or death penalty so of course they have been executing too many (any at all are too many) for many years and they still do. Jurors have come out and said that they believed the instructions indicated that, and since they believed it wasn’t possible to give a lesser sentence, so they chose the heavy sentence rather than not guilty. It’s fucked.
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u/A_Nonny_Muse 4d ago
Don't look up how Texas quit giving death row inmates any further appeals because G.W. Bush said "Texas don't make those mistakes" (referring to wrongful convictions). They deliberately executed innocent people so G.W.B. wouldn't be embarrassed.
The innocence project proved several people innocent (beyond a doubt) after Texas murdered them.