{"id":6508,"date":"2014-09-18T20:21:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T20:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6508"},"modified":"2014-09-18T20:21:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T20:21:46","slug":"ho-hum-texas-executes-a-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=6508","title":{"rendered":"Ho, hum; Texas executes a woman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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How times have changed since the late 1990s.<\/p>\n

Texas has just executed a female inmate, Lisa Coleman, 38, in the death of a 9-year-old boy she starved to death.<\/p>\n

I didn’t even know she was scheduled to die, only learning of her death after the fact<\/em>.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/news.msn.com\/crime-justice\/texas-executes-woman-for-starvation-of-boy-9-1<\/p>\n

Yep, just another day at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice death chamber.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t help but think of the international uproar that arose when Texas put down Karla Faye Tucker back in 1998. Do you remember when then-Gov. George W. Bush mocked Tucker just days before she died when he said, using a pitiful voice, that Tucker likely said, “Pleease<\/em> don’t kill me.” Oh, that Dubya,\u00a0.. what a card.<\/p>\n

A South Africa TV station called to interview little ol’ me — yours truly — about Tucker’s impending death. They must have run out of more suitable subjects to interview, but there I was — on the air, live, with some reporter in Cape Town, South Africa, offering my own perspective on what it meant to execute a woman.<\/p>\n

I’ve kept my feelings about capital punishment pretty much quiet. Only my family and closest friends had known how I feel about it.\u00a0I more or less had to keep quiet about it, given that I worked for newspapers that supported the use of the death penalty as punishment for capital crimes. Now that I can speak for myself, I have declared my opposition to capital punishment.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t upset any more when we execute women. I detest the punishment for men and women equally.<\/p>\n

What’s more detestable, though, is that the death of a young woman on a TDCJ execution chamber gurney came and went and so few of us seemed to care.<\/p>\n\n

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How times have changed since the late 1990s. Texas has just executed a female inmate, Lisa Coleman, 38, in the death of a 9-year-old boy she starved to death. I didn’t even know she was scheduled to die, only learning of her death after the fact. http:\/\/news.msn.com\/crime-justice\/texas-executes-woman-for-starvation-of-boy-9-1 Yep, just another day at the Texas Department … Continue reading Ho, hum; Texas executes a woman<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,18],"tags":[847,1899,2633,2800,4530],"class_list":["post-6508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","category-state-news","tag-capital-punishment","tag-george-w-bush","tag-karla-faye-tucker","tag-lisa-coleman","tag-tdcj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}