Det lykkedes præsidentkandidat Bush, i hvis stat man har foretaget 144 henrettelser, at undgå dødsstrafspørgsmålet i valgkampagnen, og på en diskret og hyklerisk måde udsatte han henrettelserne i sin stat til efter valget.
Mr Bush, in whose State 144 executions have been carried out, succeeded in removing the issue of the death penalty from the electoral campaign and discreetly and hypocritically postponed the executions in his State until after the elections.