Texas Pulls the Switch On 12 Inmates in 6 Weeks

Texas has decided to showcase its enthusiasm for pushing the button by getting a death row assembly-line on the case. AP reports:

A dozen condemned inmates in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s so-called “death watch” cells are being executed at a scheduled rate of two a week over six weeks.
Two were executed the week of Oct. 13. 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.
The steady stream of executions is relieving a logjam created when the U.S. Supreme Court effectively halted lethal injections around the country while it decided whether the killing method was unconstitutionally inhumane. It ruled the method was constitutional and executions resumed.
Despite the death chamber’s revolving door in October and November, this is hardly a record year for executions in Texas, with a total of 21 scheduled for 2008.
“Will crime stop? Will my death stop what’s going on in everyday society?” asked Kevin Watts, who was executed two days after Kelly. “They’re just killing people.” Watts was condemned for shooting three people in the back of the head during a robbery.

Yea, those executions sure are an effective deterrent to murder. It’s amazing that people still get murdered in Texas seeing as how their death row is a virtual death factory, and is such an awesome means of punishment and in now way just revenge, whatsoever.