In his closing argument, Beane said he thought Luke should not get the death penalty because the stabbing, which Luke admitted to Canton police detectives in a tape-recorded statement played for the jury, was the result of ``blind, uncontrollable rage.''
Beane repeated that word -- rage -- as he described other nationally infamous cases in which the defendant did not get the death penalty. One such case was that of Andrea Yates of Houston, who was spared the death penalty in March 2002 after she was convicted of drowning her five young children ina bathtub.
Beane emphasized that the Yates jury had spared her from death ``in Texas.''
``And when you hear the word Texas, then you think of pickup trucks, beauty pageants and executions... '' Beane said.
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I think that lawyer should come on down here to Texas and say that!!!!!