Texas grants clemency to Thomas Whitaker minutes before execution

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has commuted the death sentence of a man who masterminded the murder of his mother and brother after the inmate’s father, who barely survived the crime, pleaded for his killer son’s life to be spared.

Whitaker was convicted of conspiring to murder his parents and brother for a family inheritance. Whitaker’s roommate was the actual triggerman. Lots of Bible quotes around the Clemency Board’s hearings and decision on this. So, there is mercy; for white people from upstanding, financially solvent families, severely depleted though they may be. Trash and “others” still get the needle.