Oct. 19 (UPI) — A frantic and unprecedented rush by Texas lawmakers to successfully block the controversial execution of death row inmate Robert Roberson this week was notable for the absence of Gov. Greg Abbott , political analysts say.
In a state where the death penalty is as ingrained as cowboy boots and conservative politics, news of Roberson’s death sentence broke through in Texas after the rarest of phenoms: a noisy, bipartisan effort that bypassed the governor’s office to save a man from lethal injection.
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