Happy 1000th execution USA!

Friday, December 2nd marked a very special day for our country. We executed the 1000th person since reinstating the extremely constitutional death penalty 28 years ago. What makes this execution especially exciting is that the man executed, Kenneth Lee Boyd, 57, had an IQ of 77, just 2 points above the legal cut off for mental retardation. Boyd's lawyer tried to play the retard card, but thankfully the jury didn't fall into that trap and justice prevailed.

In an age when an increasing number of coward nations have abandoned capital punishment, it is invigorating to know that the United States of America is holding fast to its founding principles: life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and capital punishment. I am proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with other great nations committed to freedom and, by extension, capital punishment, such as Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe, and Belarusia, which gets extra credit for being the only nation in Europe with courage to have the death penalty.


In a touching demonstration of solidarity and international cooperation, Singapore hanged a 25-year-old Australian drug mule. just hours before we executed Boyd.

The U.S. has reached an important milestone. Our freedom-loving allies, Vietnam, China, and Iran were the only countries who managed to execute more people than we did in 2004. That is only 3 countries, but that's 3 countries too many.