Rick Perry fabulously defends Texas death penalty

The moderator asked Rick Perry if he had trouble sleeping at night, wondering if any of the 234 executions in the State of Texas might have been an innocent person. Perry gave a great answer, but his best line was this one:

If you come into our state and you kill one of our children, you kill a police officer, you’re involved with another crime and you kill one of our citizens, you will face the ultimate justice in the State of Texas. And that is you will be executed.

And the crowd loved it:


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