PLEASE SHED NO TEARS!

The big bad State of Texas, World Capital of Capital Punishment, has just executed another poor soul because that bad ass, hard ass, heartless Gov. Rick Perry refused to go along with the Board of Pardons and Paroles’ recommendation that his life be spared.

In “Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Click, Whack, Whack, Whack, Whack” (10-28-09), I wrote that Robert Lee Thompson is another poster boy for the death penalty. If you recall, during the 1996 robbery of a Houston convenience store, Thompson did not actually kill anyone while his crime partner received a life sentence, although he did kill one of the store clerks.

Thompson was tried for capital murder under Texas’ “Law of Parties” which holds all participants in such crimes equally responsible for any killing. Now that Thompson has been executed, the opponents of Capital Punishment are outraged at Gov. Perry and the do-gooders and bleeding hearts are weeping and wailing over a scumbag’s demise.

Let me remind everyone of just exactly what Thompson actually did during the robbery. Thompson approached the clerk at the checkout counter, pulled a pistol and demanded money. When the clerk opened the cash register, Thompson shot the complying clerk four times. He then spotted the other clerk at the rear of the store and fired two shots at him. Thompson, having missed the other clerk, returned his attention to the wounded clerk and attempted to shoot him a fifth time with his gun pointed at the victim’s neck. The gun did not fire because he was out of ammo. Thompson then pistol-whipped the badly wounded clerk and bashed him over the head with the register’s cash drawer.

The wounded clerk was lucky to survive. Thompson also tried to murder the other clerk who was killed by his crime partner as they were leaving the scene. His crime partner certainly deserved to be executed but, unfortunately, a jury did not see it that way.

So, all you weepers and wailers stop shedding those tears. I don’t care much for Gov. Perry, but in this case he was definitely right in not stopping Thompson’s execution.