'Pro-life' Gov. Greg Abbott oversees his 55th execution in Texas

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : "Catholic doctrine is not against the death penalty, and so there is no conflict there," Abbott told the San Antonio Express-News Editorial Board in 2014.
43% : Texas leads the nation in executions, due in part to Abbott's own avid support for the death penalty.
42% : In 2018, he called the death penalty "inadmissible," and said the "dignity of the person is not lost even after the commission of very serious crimes."
41% : Since becoming governor in 2015, Abbott has only granted clemency to one inmate facing the death penalty.
39% : The GOP governor has referred to the death penalty as 'Texas justice.'
39% : The law, S.B. 8, effectively outlaws abortion at six weeks -- before most patients even know they're pregnant.
39% : "I don't agree with his view on the death penalty, and I think that he's not following the edict of the Catholic Church."
37% : In the past, Abbott has jokingly referred to the death penalty as "Texas justice."

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