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Facing questions about a Texas execution stayed by the Supreme Court, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Friday that he “respects” the Court’s decision and defended the Texas justice system.Speaking to reporters after touring a Coca-Cola bottling factory in Atlantic, Iowa, Perry declined to offer many thoughts about the late Thursday stay. Continue Reading “I won’t <a href="http://www.monclerjacketscoats2011.com/moncler-kids-c-4.html"><strong>moncler kid</strong></a> venture a guess what the Supreme Court will decide on this one, but it will go forward and justice will be served,” Perry said. Asked about the 2000 statement from John Cornyn — then the Texas attorney general and now the state’s junior senator, and a close Perry ally — that this case was among several death sentences that had been unfairly influenced by a psychologist’s testimony that black convicts were by their race more likely to re-offend, Perry said that Cornyn is no longer in charge. “John is a former attorney general, he’s a United States senator, but he unilaterally doesn’t make decisions in the state <a href="http://www.northfacestores-discount.com"><strong>north face discount</strong></a> of Texas,” Perry said. Duane Buck, an African-American man who was sent to death row in 1997, was among those sentenced to die after the psychologist, Walter Quijano, testified in their sentencing hearings. Buck was sentenced to die Thursday night before Justice Antonin Scalia issued a stay to delay the execution while the high court considers the merits of his case. Perry said he has no doubts about the process through which Buck was sentenced to die. “We have an appeals process in the state, we have a process of justice in the state of Texas that I have full confidence in. As it goes forward, there are ways to address any concerns. The Supreme Court of the United States decided to stay the execution, I respect that. They will have open and appropriate conversations between those lawyers representing Mr. Buck and the state of Texas.” He added: “They are taking the appropriate path in my opinion and justice will be served at some point in the future.” Perry said the Texas legal system is well equipped to handle capital punishment cases. “We have a clear appeals process that is followed in every case. Whether or not you agree with the appeal or not is your call,” he said. “I have full confidence that people have their full and open right to a jury <a href="http://www.northfacesales-discount.com/mens-north-face-feather-c-1.html"><strong>mens north face jackets</strong></a> trial, to an appellate process and to any other appeals that are appropriate. In the state of Texas, we believe in our form of justice, we think it’s appropriate.”
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