FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Houston hair care businessman Farouk Shami says he'd support a moratorium on the death penalty if elected governor.
In a televised debate Monday evening with Democratic challenger Bill White, Shami says "a lot of innocent poeple" have been killed.
Texas leads the nation in carrying out capital punishment and Shami says he wouldn't support executions unless he was "110 percent sure" of the guilt of the convicted person.
White, asked the same question, said he supported the death penalty but didn't back a moratorium, saying it would be unfair to juries and victims where there was no question of guilty.
