Texas and the Death Penalty.

The author focuses on the high number of executions by capital punishments in Texas. He says that the case Baze versus Rees in the U.S. Supreme Court imposed a national moratorium on the death penalty. Texas Solicitor R. Ted Cruz stressed that his state carries out death penalty when a sentence is legally and justly imposed. Cruz also mentioned that Texas has frequently been defending the proposition that the federal courts should respect the determinations of the elected legislatures.