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Surely it is better to renounce Bush for his over-zealousness in authorising these executions (which by his lack of veto, he has done) than to simply assume the jury was right in all cases?
Look, he doesn't have that power of veto. Most of the people executed were convicted before he was even governor, they just happened to exhaust their appeals process while he was in office.
You sound like what you really expected of him was work to change the law and abolish the death penalty in Texas (which is the only way he could theoretically have stopped these executions.) Which obviously he isn't going to do because he supports the death penalty. Condemn him for the fact that he's pro-DP, if that's what you'd like to do, but the fact that more executions took place than normal is completely and totally separate from him and irrelevant.
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