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Texas Gov. Rick Perry may have to decide whether a death row inmate lives or dies.
Inmate Robert Lee Thompson was executed Thursday evening for his part in a fatal Houston store holdup after the Texas governor rejected a parole board's recommendation to spare him because he wasn't the gunman.
Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison, who is challenging Texas Gov. Rick Perry for his job, is planning to keep her U.S. Senate seat until after the state's March gubernatorial primary.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry told renewable energy industry officials that a cap-and-trade climate bill in Congress would increase taxes and devastate the state's energy sector.
Texas governor Rick Perry has visited with wounded victims from the Fort Hood shooting.
A man put to death in 2004 for killing his three children was "a monster," and suggestions that he may have been innocent are anti-death penalty propaganda, Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday.
A former brother-in-law of a man executed in 2004 for killing his three children says the death row inmate had confessed to his ex-wife that he set the fire that killed their daughters.
A cousin of Texas Gov. Rick Perry was shot and killed over the weekend in his backyard during an exchange of gunfire with sheriff's deputies, officials said Thursday.
A Texas man who spent more time in prison than any other inmate before being exonerated by DNA evidence was pardoned by Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday, clearing the way for him to collect millions of dollars from the state.
A report concluding a faulty investigation led to a Texas man's execution won't be reviewed by a state board as planned Friday after Gov. Rick Perry abruptly removed three people from the panel, forcing the meeting's cancellation.
Rancher Mike Landry recently came upon a group of unarmed men dressed in camouflage burglarizing his guest house and stealing a truck from his 11,000 acres in Terrell County, rugged country bordering the Rio Grande in West Texas.
Special teams of Texas Rangers will be deployed to the Texas-Mexico border to deal with increasing violence because the federal government has failed to address growing problems there, Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday. "It is an expansive effort with the Rangers playing a more high-profile role than they've ever played before," Perry said of the Department of Public Safety's elite investigative unit.
If there was any doubt that Texans would witness a red-hot Republican race for governor, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison removed it Monday when she kicked off a five-day announcement tour and delivered her harshest attack ever on Gov. Rick Perry.
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison says Texas Gov. Rick Perry is "trying to stay too long" in office and has proposed putting a limit on how long a governor can serve.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry was raising money at campaign headquarters when an Associated Press reporter called his press staff to ask what he was doing. An hour later, he walked into AP's statehouse bureau to show he was alive and well and not, say, in South America for a romantic rendezvous.
Gov. Rick Perry is ready to raise campaign cash, while Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison may finally be ready to raise a ruckus as the Republican heavyweights begin combat for the governor's office next year.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed into law a bill restructuring the state's windstorm insurance fund, the only property insurer for homeowners and business in 14 coastal counties.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed legislation Thursday aimed at improving security and oversight of the state's institutions for the mentally disabled — which have been stung by allegations of widespread abuse, including fights between residents staged by workers.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry broke his collarbone while riding a mountain bike near his home.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed a bill that increases the compensation paid to people who are wrongfully convicted and sent to prison for crimes they didn't commit.
While Gov. Rick Perry is criticizing Washington bailouts, state lawmakers are planning to use $11 million in federal stimulus money to help rebuild the badly burned Texas Governor's Mansion.
A comment by a strategist for Gov. Rick Perry that the Republican Party shouldn't act like a brothel to lure new voters has infuriated prominent GOP women in Texas and given Perry's primary rival, U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, fuel for their election fight.
While Gov. Rick Perry is slamming Washington bailouts and excessive spending, his own state Senate defied his wishes and voted Thursday to accept $555 million in federal unemployment benefits.
In a state that once was its own nation, a Republican governor who talked about secession without completely dismissing the idea has Democratic lawmakers in an uproar.
A group of Texas Democrats says Republican Gov. Rick Perry was reckless when he suggested at an anti-tax rally that fed-up Americans may one day want to secede from the United States. They said Thursday that he should disavow such talk. Democratic state Rep. Jim Dunnam of Waco says talk of secession is anti-American and that some people associate it with racial division and the Civil War.
Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison Are Locked In A Pitched Battle Over The Soul Of The GOP. They Are Also Running For Governor.Never much of a spellbinder, Hutchison fails to stir the audience or, for that matter, articulate a compelling message as to why, by waging a primary battle against a sitting governor, she is forcing Republicans to choose sides and risking the implosion of the party from within.
Texas Governor Refuses Clemency for Condemned ManHUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- Gov. Rick Perry refused to spare a man facing execution Thursday evening for his role in a fatal robbery, rejecting a parole board recommendation that the death sentence of 34-year-old Robert Lee Thompson be commuted to life in prison.
I have lived in Texas for essentially all of my adult life---assuming you realize El Paso is part of Texas, rather than New Mexico (or even Mexico). Rick Perry has been governor of Teas for seemingly most of that time (the time when George W. Gush was not governor).
Rick Perry 'Hell Bent' on Pleasing Right-Wing BasePERRY 'HELL BENT' ON PLEASING RIGHT-WING BASE.... It's funny to think about now, but Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) used to be a Democrat. In 1988, he even endorsed Al Gore's presidential candidacy. It was just two decades ago.
Perry says Obama taking U.S. toward socialismGov. Rick Perry had some pretty strong comments about the Obama administration on Wednesday in Midland, saying, "This is an administration hell-bent on taking America towards a socialist country."
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) Claims Obama is 'punishing' Texas, 'hell-bent' on socialismTexas GOP Gov. Rick Perry accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of "punishing" Texas and being "hell-bent" on turning the United States into a socialist country.
2004 Execution Haunts Texas Governor's RaceBut the state's leading newspapers aren't buying his explanation. Their editorial pages have roundly condemned the governor's actions as arrogant.
The "Big Tent" GOP of Ronald Reagan seems in danger. Reagan's rule of not speaking against a fellow Republican was thoroughly rejected in the 2008 races as candidates sought to distance themselves fron the Bush-Cheney years.
More Strange Turns in Texas' Possible Execution of an Innocent ManTexas Gov. Rick Perry then came under fire earlier this month by refusing to reappoint three members of the Forensic Science Commission at a critical point in its investigation of the Willingham case.
US authorities urged to overturn death sentence after jury consulted BibleA clutch of jurors huddled in the corner with one reading aloud from the Book of Numbers: "The murderer shall surely be put to death" and "The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer."
Perry stays secret on many things, including forensics files | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest NewsNothing like transparent government... I didn't vote for him in the last election and I will continue to not vote for him in any upcoming elections.
Is Texas Gov. Rick Perry Trying to Get Away with Murder?Looks like it. It's starting to look more and more like Texas governor Rick Perry orchestrated an effort to thwart a state probe into an arson investigation that may have led to the execution of an innocent man.
Secession movement goes beyond TexasAUSTIN — As head of the Texas Nationalist Movement, Daniel Miller of Nederland believes it's time for the Lone Star State to sever its bond with the United States and return to the days when Texas was an independent republic.
Swine flu (I refuse to call it "H1NI" virus on general principles, even if "swine flu" is not the most accurate name) is a normal flu--perhapses MILDER than most flu strains. I was born in 1947.
Rick Perry Doesn't Want You To Know ThisPerry As we've discussed before, Gov. Rick Perry loves the death penalty. If he could, he'd swaddle it in the softest cashmere blankets and tuck it in every night, close to his hollow chest (where one's heart is usually located) but nowhere near his impeccable hair.
TX-Gov Rick Perry Compared to Nixon in Cover-Up of Possible Execution of an Innocent ManTX-Gov: Rick Perry Compared to Nixon in Cover-Up of Todd Willingham's Execution The Houston Chronicle's Lisa Falkenberg asks: "Is Perry pulling a Nixon?" It would be a dangerous political liability for any candidate: The possibility that, as governor, Rick Perry presided over t …
Texas Governor Stops Hearing of Forensic Science Commision Into ExecutionGov. Rick Perry replaced the chairman and two members of the state's Forensic Science Commission, two days before the commission was to hear evidence that Texas executed an innocent man.
TX Gov. Perry replaces commissioners probing controversial execution Though Texas executed Cameron Todd Willingham five years ago, his case that refuses to die has now taken another twist.
Romney Touts Fox Nation Website As Ticket To GOP Political Success In 2010 And The Years Beyondexcerpt: ""Earlier this year, the so-called "fair and balanced" network launched its Fox Nation website, an opinionated online forum.
"Values Voters" Pimp Fox NationThe recent Values Voters Summit was an insane clown posse full of uber right wing Christians, who, if not for the cross and an absence of burqas, aren't all that different from the Taliban in their moral inflexibility and bizarre world view.
Rick Perry Calls Stimulus 'Irresponsible' after Accepting Billions of Federal Dollars to Balance Budget, Repair Governor's MansionHilarious. Texas Gov.
This is only the beginning, if we allow this [ same sex marriage ] to happen we will, in effect, have destabilized the basic institution of our society, which is marriage between a man and a woman - Brian Camenker, President of the Parents' Rights Coalition, as quoted by MassNews …
Patriots Come Out To Texas Pro-Secession Rally: "We Hate The United States!"excerpt: "" Protesters at an event in Austin, TX yesterday just took the vile rhetoric we've seen on display this August one extra step:.""
Fiscal Conservatism and the Soul of the GOP: An Interview with Texas Gov. Rick Perry With a tan baseball cap hanging off one knee, Mr.
Right-wing militias on the rise in US: report - Yahoo! NewsIncensed by the election of the first black US president, right-wing militia groups in the United States are rising again after a decade of decline, according to new research on extremist groups.
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