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...course, the Democrat who made that crack in the first paragraph will snort at the idea of George W. Bush--scion of old Wasps, Galahad of tort reform, living fat on Texas oil money and "presiding" over lethal injections--as a hero of the anti-elitist masses. But that will be the Democrat's mistake...
...meal to sugarcoat what remains a grim act of violence by the state to redress a previous wrong. After all, in some countries, a condemned man's last meal is whatever the prison kitchen happens to be serving that day, and death is by firing squad rather than the lethal injection ritual that gives the impression of a medical procedure rather than the more visible violence of shooting a man to death...
...There's no correct answer, of course. Killing people is a morally messy business. Whether we allow a man carte blanche with junk food menus and then have a medic administer a lethal injection, or we simply serve him that day's fried chicken and then shoot him in the head, the act is, in essence, the same. The difference, in the end, may have less to do with the condemned man's perception than it does with the way his executioners - and the society that orders them to kill its capital convicts - experience his death...
...execution chamber in Huntsville, Tex., will be busy Wednesday night. Two inmates are scheduled to die by lethal injection - one of whom, Oliver David Cruz, has repeatedly tested below the threshold for mental retardation - and Governor George W. Bush will not be there...
...George W. Bush has a tic that drives his critics crazy, it is his cocky impression of a self-made man. Texas Democrat Jim Hightower tossed off a lethal line about the father: that he was "born on third base and thought he hit a triple," which more than one adversary has applied to the son. Without the family connections, they argue, he would never have got into such elite schools, or found a slot in the National Guard during Vietnam, or got those jobs in the oil business or been given a second glance in politics...