Texans are Going Soft

Texas isn’t as keen on killing off their bad apples.

IN AMERICA’S death penalty capital, this one seemed like an open and shut case.

In an act of apparent spite, Gabriel Armandariz murdered his defenceless young sons, hid them underneath his Texas home and sent pictures of their bodies, including one hanging in a wardrobe, to the childrens’ mother Lauren Smith…

Police found the bodies of Luke, eight months, and Gatlin, 2, within hours of the disturbing texts. Armandariz, 32, later confessed.

The 2011 murders sent chills down the spines of the hardest Texans. Armandariz, it seemed, was destined for the death chamber.

But when the case came to trial earlier this year, something happened in the courtroom that would have never happened 10 years ago. A jury returned a life in prison verdict. Armandariz, described as a “lying, manipulative baby killer”, would be spared the execution chamber…

“The lawyers were crying. The jury was crying. Trial observers were crying,” journalist Tim Cole wrote.

So what happened? Did the men and women of the jury go soft? If they did, they’re not alone.

Not one Texas jury has sentenced a single guilty party to death this year.

That’s in stark contrast to the 48 people executed in Texas in 1999, or 39 executed in 2000, or 24 executed in 2009.

Experts say it’s a trend that will soon see the death penalty abolished in even the most conservative US states.

Again, a product of r-selection, amygdala atrophy, and copious comfort.

Liberals are like a constant force, pushing the population to be pussies. When times get tough amygdalae develop, conservatives get pissed, and they push back so the liberalism is repelled. But if times are good and an economy is roaring, amygdalae atrophy, anger evaporates, and the effort to push back is just too much. Suddenly child murderers are getting life sentences instead of the chair. Or even worse the chair is turned into some lovey-dovey pseudo drug overdose without the smell of burnt hair and electrical fire.

It will reverse. Liberals have an innately acute sense of just how hard they can push, and where the boundary lies between getting all inmates the best cable TV packages, and the liberals being buried in the desert up to their necks next to a fire ant mound. Once the collapse goes down, expect the killing to amp back up, and the liberals to quietly accept it.

Apocalypse cometh™