It's Texas 518, Oklahoma 111 in legalized murder Superbowl

A previous post "Crazy Texas about to murder crazy man", addressed the plight of Scott Panetti, the 56 year old schizophrenic Texan scheduled to be executed in a week for a double murder in 1992. Yesterday, the Texas Board of Pardons voted 7-0 not to commute Panetti's death sentence. This legally prevents Governor Rick Perry from commuting Panetti's sentence, but he can order a month long reprieve for Panetti's lawyer...s to offer additional evidence of Panetti's insanity, making him ineligible for execution. Given Perry's grisly death penalty record of governance, Panetti will likely ingest the lethal drugs in about 22 hours.

Most folks think the biggest rivalry between Texas and Oklahoma is the football rivalry between their respective state universities. While I don't know their football record over the past 38 years, when it comes to state sponsored murder, Texas wins, body down, 518 to 111. But as far behind as Oklahoma is concerned, the Sooners can at least bellow to the folks ravaged by blood lust: "We're No. 2."