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WILLIAMS: Governor Perry, a question about Texas. Your state has executed 234 death row inmates, more than any other governor in modern times. Have you...
(APPLAUSE)
... What do you make of that dynamic that just happened here, the mention of the execution of 234 people drew applause?
— transcript, The Republican Debate at the Reagan Library, Sept. 7, 2011
The Republican Party celebrates death; revels in it. Above is just one of many recent instances where a Republican audience took pleasure in people dying. This is so beyond me I can't comprehend it: a whole, (supposedly) mainstream political party embracing death. (APPLAUSE)
... What do you make of that dynamic that just happened here, the mention of the execution of 234 people drew applause?
— transcript, The Republican Debate at the Reagan Library, Sept. 7, 2011
Can anybody provide additional examples? Can anybody explain this behavior?