March 17, 2003 6:15 AM

It's OK, we'll just call it "collateral damage"

Texans show solid support for executions: Most also believe innocent people have been put to death, poll shows

Hey, so we nuke an innocent member of a minority group every now and then. It's a small price to pay for makin' the world safe for good, God-fearin' white folk!

The recent flurry of news about capital punishment has not swayed the opinions of Texans, who remain committed to the death penalty, even if it means executing innocent people in the process.

A recent Scripps Howard Texas Poll found 76 percent of Texans said they support the death penalty. Sixty-nine percent of the poll respondents also said they believe the state has executed innocent people.

The poll results baffled even the most ardent death penalty supporters.

"That's hard for me to fathom," said Dianne Clements, president of Justice for All, a victim's rights organization that supports the death penalty.

Clements questioned whether Texans really believe innocent people have been executed.

"If I believed we executed an innocent inmate, I couldn't support the death penalty. It doesn't make any sense," Clements said.

Yep, here in Texas we really do believe that we can have our cake AND eat it. Frontier justice is, well, kinda fun, really....

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