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Texas governor and Republican candidate faces presidential clemency in both cases the death penalty very pronounced

. Amanda Marcotte

Rick Perry, does justice The style of Texas

Rick Perry, the favorite to become the Republican candidate in presidential elections next year, just a few hours to prevent a man who was sentenced to death in Texas in a case in which he told the jury the prisoner was a danger to the public - and therefore must be carried -. because he was black

Duane Buck is one of four scheduled to die by lethal injection in Texas, where Perry is governor over the next eight days - an exceptional rate, even in this state run happy. On hearing the sentence of Buck, the jury set his punishment was told by a psychologist that blacks had higher rates of violent behavior, a statement used by the prosecution as a key argument against the granting of a sentence alternative to life imprisonment.

Tuesday night, another hotly contested case is scheduled to reach its climax with the execution of Steven Woods, who was sentenced to death for a double murder, even if an alleged accomplice later confessed to pulling the trigger.

How

Perry responds to requests for commutation and clemency in these cases controversial provide an indication of how it intends to address the issue of the death penalty, who grew up in the presidential race for the first time. Perry, governor of Texas presided over more executions than any other official of the United States in modern times.

Perry was asked about his enthusiasm for the death penalty Republican in a televised debate last week. When the moderator television made him the state had executed 234 prisoners since he became governor in 2000, the studio audience applauded Republicans.

Perry said he had never lost sleep worrying that some of these people may have been innocent. "I've never struggled with that at all," he said.

When asked how he felt with the applauding audience of so many deaths, he said. "I think Americans understand justice"

counsel for both Buck and Woods are engaged in frantic lobbying the late Perry and the courts to try to delay executions. If their efforts fail, the execution of Woods on the night of Tuesday will be followed by Buck on Wednesday night.

responsibility for running forward, despite the controversy over racially tinged with testimony, is now falling on the shoulders of Perry. The Board of Pardons and Paroles has authorized one of the last obstacles to the last sentence go forward, refusing to recommend that Buck was pardoned.

This leaves Perry, who has the power to issue a stay of 30 days, but he did so rarely.

Buck, 48, fatally shot Debra Gardner, his former girlfriend and a friend of hers, Kenneth Butler, in a fit of drunken jealousy in July 1995. His guilt is not contested, but the evidence before the jury in its verdict.

At the hearing, a psychologist, Dr. Walter Quijano, was called by the defense and said he did not think Buck would be a future danger of such murders had been a single crime passion. However, when questioned, the prosecutor relied on the ethnic origin of Buck as an African-American.

lawyer Buck, Katherine Black, asked Perry to commute his execution to allow the new sentence. "This case violates the Constitution U. S. and undermines our moral values. A person is entitled to be sentenced is not based on the color of their skin, "says the petition.

additional pressure was exerted by an experienced lawyer Perry of Texas who served as prosecutor in the original trial of Buck. Linda Perry wrote Geffin asking him to delay the execution. "It is inappropriate to allow race to be considered as a factor in our criminal justice system," he wrote.

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