A man  rescued from the death penalty just a few hours before his scheduled state performed murder.
The governor of Texas, Rick Perry, agreed with  a parole board  and changed the punishment of Kenneth Foster, who was to die by lethal injection.

Foster, only  30 years old, was the  vehicle driver in a 1996 homocide but his sentence had been criticized as he had zero to do with the bullets being shot.

However, he was found guilty of killing a man and order to be put to  death by the Texas law of parties, which makes non-shooters as much accountable for any crime.
A different condemned person was murdered by the government under the same law previously this year.

The governor feels his decision is right and just, and feel good about making his sentence a life sentence and not a death sentence. I think I would rather be executed than live in a cage.

Its unusual for a parole board to vote to save someone fom death row, but more so in TEXAS. I wonder if the inmate is happy? Perhaps he was ready to go..