What Justice Looks Like

After a mere forty-eight years, the Christian state of Texas has condescended to formalise the non-execution of a long-term death row inmate. Being a brain-damaged schizophrenic with mental retardation and the racial handicap, and doubtless with the concomitant degree of wealth that tends to make such people more personally culpable than their betters, the man has had no legal representation in three decades, and has therefore remained in the queue for the ultimate justice despite having been found intellectually ineligible for the privilege relatively soon after his conviction. He is now likely to be re-sentenced to life imprisonment which, given his prospects if put out onto the streets, is probably about as merciful as the Christian state of Texas could be.