I understand that an “editorial” is given a certain latitude in describing the facts, but at what point is the editorial description over the top?  Check this out: Editorials/la-ed-texas-death-penalty.

First a little schooling, when you watch crime dramas on TV, likely your only legal instruction, the shows feature the concept of accessory either before the fact or after the fact, or conspiracy. The concept of accessory before, after, during, in the future, or in a separate dimension may exist in California, but not in Texas. So there is really no reason to have the rest of the discussion, the crime occurred in Kerrville, Texas.  Texas gets to make the rules, not California.

But, what the hell.  The shooter, the guy we’re supposed to be sorry for, the clerk, and another guy all discussed the possibility of robbing the store.  They came up with a plan.  The shooter and the idiot we’re supposed to be sorry for tried to carry out the plan, but the clerk got cold feet and refused to cooperate.  Our two desperados drove away, gee wonder what that conversation was like? After a short time, the truck was borrowed, they set off to return the truck, but ended up back at the store.  The guy we’re supposed to feel sorry for wasn’t worried, he told the gunman not to bring the gun and karma wasn’t  right for robbery. Don’t believe him ask him, he’ll tell you the truth, not like he’s got a dog in this hunt. The LA Slimes would have you believe that the time factor between the plan, failed robbery and do over was such that our miscreant cannot be tied to the do over.  It all happened in one night over the course of hours.

The LA Slimes worries that his IQ of 80 did not allow him to effectively assist his attorney.  If he was F Lee Bailey he couldn’t have effectively assisted counsel with this fact situation.

Well the gunman didn’t listen, there was their former buddy, blood, brains and eyeballs splattered about the place.  It was only fitting that they take the night’s receipts, he would have wanted it that way. He went to trial and lost and is now looking at the death sentence. That is what you call a principal, in Texas.  The “LA Slimes” isn’t sure the conduct is egregious enough to warrant the death sentence.

Tell the warden you want the “Special”, it’ll be like all your birthdays are coming out the end of you pee-pee. Don’t take no for an answer.

It’s a good thing that only Tommy Lee Jones and a couple of other unemployed actors read the LA Slimes, in Texas.  “It was just one of those things”.  Please, please, please, California drop off into the ocean before any more of those assholes come to Texas.