Despite a 2002 Supreme Court ruling that executing the mentally retarded is unconstitutional, Texas has not stopped killing Gumps, according to this article in the Texas Observer. Pretty much everything is present in this story to qualify Texas as institutionally racist, from a sissy-boy governor who does shit just to look tough to a failed public education system that literally can’t distinguish “retarded” from “Mexican.” Because in Texas, apparently, we’d rather drive a shortbus of off-white, terrified retards over a cliff than let a murderer spend the rest of his life in prison (the horror!).
Posted: January 17th, 2010
