Texas State Representative Borris Miles (D-Houston) didn't like the hanging and electrocution depictions in an art exhibit organized by an anti-death-penalty group at the Capitol building in Austin, so he had the items removed.
According to an Associated Press article published in the Dallas Morning News, Miles said that:
"We should not prevent the display of art, but there have to be limits."So who appointed him to the role of censor?
The other side speaks out as follows:
The Texas Moratorium Network, which advocates a two-year moratorium on the death penalty, didn’t violate any standards with the exhibit, said Scott Cobb, the group’s president.[Read more.]
He said the purpose of the artwork, some of which was created by death-row inmates, is to call attention to the death penalty.
"Nobody has a right to take down what they don’t like. [Miles] overreacted and should have gone through the proper channels" to remove the work, Cobb said.
If scenes of execution are so offensive to that Texas lawmaker, why does Texas execute more people than any other state in the U.S.?
And if scenes of execution are so effensive to him, why doesn't Rep. Miles introduce legislation to end the death penalty in Texas?
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