You have to love Texas: [Source]

In an unusual direct appeal, the EU said Governor Rick Perry should introduce a moratorium on the death penalty and stop the impending 400th execution since Texas resumed capital punishment in 1982.

Our great state’s response:

“The reason our forefathers fought a war 230 years ago was to throw off the yoke of a European monarch so that we may have the freedom of self-determination,” Black said. “Texans long ago decided that the death penalty is a just and appropriate punishment for the most horrible crimes committed against our citizens.”