Bill Clinton left the Presidential Campaign trail in January 1992 and rushed backed to his home state of Arkansas to preside over the execution of a mentally disabled, black man as the Governor. No law required him to be back for the execution to take place.

However, as a democratic party candidate, perceived to be “soft” on crime and in the middle of a scandal with a woman named Gennifer Flowers, Clinton felt the need to not only go through with the execution, but to make a public spectacle of it. Ricky Ray Rector, the executed individual had lost one third of his brain and saved the pecan pie from his last meal to have later.

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