Federal Judge Rips the Texas Courts a New One on Capital Case

It appears that Federal Judge Orlando Garcia is upset at the state of the death penalty in Texas, and said so in his ruling granting a stay for Jeffery Lee Wood.

The judge described the positively Kafkaesque system under which he was determined to be competent for execution, as, "an insane system," because it required that he prove that he was insane before the state would grant him a lawyer and a psychologist to prove that he was insane.

In addition to his not pulling the trigger, he was driving the getaway car, the man has a long history of mental problems and retardation.

I understand why the Judge finds this insane, but he does not understand Texas. People there do not care if someone is innocent, or insane, they just want a needle put in as many arms as possible.

The entire state is nuts.<sup>*

*</sup>I lived in Texas from 1992-1994, and 1996-2001.