"To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing,
if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Happy New Year

by Lee

Texas is starting the year off right.

A Dallas man described by authorities as a serial rapist was executed tonight for raping and strangling a woman at her College Station apartment 3 1/2 years ago.

Ynobe Matthews declined to make a final statement before he was put to death, but mouthed “I love you” several times to a sister and cousin who were watching him through a window.

As the drugs began taking effect, he gasped a couple of times, sputtered and let out a long wheeze before becoming unconscious. Eight minutes later, at 6:18 p.m., he was pronounced dead.

A half-dozen members of his victims’ families watched through another window, but Matthews ignored them.

Matthews, 27, was condemned for the death of Carolyn Casey, 21, one of two women he was convicted of killing. Testimony at his trial also linked him to at least three other rapes and two other attempted rapes.

Bleeding heart liberals took a break from demonstrating in support of the killing of unborn children to protest the execution of the murder/rapist.

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