Henry Lee Lucas was the biggest serial killer ever. Lucas confessed to involvement in about 600 murders, with an average of about one murder per week between his release from prison in mid-1975 to his arrest in mid-1983. He later recanted some of the murders, and the murder total was closer to 350, but you can say for sure he was a scumbag and deserved a tough sentence for his crimes.At his trial in Texas, Lucas was ultimately convicted of 11 homicides and put on Death Row. You know how Texas loves to kill people. Minors? Retarded? No problem. They will fry you.
Now cut to when George Bush was governor of Texas. In his six years, "Jesus Freak" Bush oversaw 152 people to death. He was so proud and shameless of his death record I once saw him mocking a woman who was pleading for her life on TV. "Mr. Sanctity Of Life" had a hard-on for killing humans. But, for the sake of this story, just assume that's his thing. Bush, in his twisted little boy mind, kills the baddies.
But what if you were the worst of the worst? You were convicted of killing the most people ever. You're the worst person in the world. How would Bush treat the devil incarnate? In 1998, George Bush spared the life of Henry Lee Lucas. Think about that. There were 153 Death Row cases put before Gov. Bush and he commuted only one death sentence to life in prison. Only one. The 152 other people were killed. Bush intervened and commuted Henry Lee Lucas' death sentence to life in prison. Lucas ended up dying in 2001 in prison.
There may be some controversy, and I believe capital punishment is highly flawed, but isn't fitting that Bush spared the life of one of the worst people ever.
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