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Texas Monster /// Part 2 /// 616

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The Death Penalty in Texas Is Getting Worse

The state of Texas has overcrowding in the prison population. The governor orders them to parole 750 of the lowest risk inmates a week. That means that the following week you're releasing 750 more and they are now considered the most low risk. However, they were a higher risk than the 750 that you released the week before. Right. And that trend continues week after week afterweek after week after week until you get to somebody like Kenneth McDuff who has killed three people. So it's now commuted to a life sentence. Yeah, I feel like he should have got three life sentences, but then it's even going to get worse.

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