rik perry has been governor since 2000. since the priest governor of that state left texas to become our nation's 43rd president. just as it is clear now, he is definitely going to try to run for president in 2016. it was also clooer in the twilight days that he was going to make a run for president and he was pretty clooerp about it. one of the issues, one of the things about texas, that was never all that easy to explain or translate to a national audience. was the texas experience with executions. texas likes to kill is e its prisoners. since the supreme court's legal execution again, texas has killed 518 prisoners. the next highest number is oklahoma which has killed 111 it ice not just because texas is a big stats or a populous state or a tough state. they have a unique enthusiasm for killing people. they are responsible for having overseen the deaths of hundreds of people while they were texas governor. in 19989, he was wanting to be president. texas had one particular execution that got a ton of nationwide attention.