No Wonder Rick Perry Wanted To Secede
Uh oh. Better hope he didn’t kill an innocent man.
Since the fire, arson science has been revised, and indicators that investigators used at the time to find that Willingham set the fire have since been discredited.
In the past five years, at least six arson experts have examined evidence in the Willingham case and found that there were no credible indications that the fire was intentionally set.
Then again, this is Texas. A state comfortable with a let god sort ’em out mentality.
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I’ve been backing Kay Bailey Hutchison’s challenge to Perry for well over a year now, so don’t expect me to defend him.
I don’t understand why Perry’s actions in the Willingham case are not a huge national scandal. Does the media only pay attention if there are college students dressed as pimps and prostitutes?
You do realize, don’t you, that the governor of Texas cannot actually pardon a convict of his own accord. All he can do is give a 30 day reprieve, and then the execution proceeds as scheduled UNLESS there is a recommendation for a pardon from the Board of Pardon and Parole.
For a guy who loves to talk about seccession, he’s requested and taken more federal handout money than any governor during his tenure. Typical republican hypocrite.
His attempts at covering up the execution of an innocent man will backfire, even in bloodthirsty Texas. By removing people from the panel, Perry made the classic political error. He drew more attention to the story. If he wins the primary where more republican nut jobs vote, the dems have a shot at picking up a Senate seat. The story now has statewide and national interest. That might not hurt Perry as much in a republican primary, but it certainly will in a general election. You have to think republicans aren’t as stupid as they seem and when they get in the booth they realize Perry is an immoral and despicable human being. Hutchinson comes from way back in the polls and wins the primary.
Gee, RWR, he could have at least done that I suppose. Not much of a defense. Try again.
Not a defense — simply an explanation of the power of the governor.
The reality is that the Texas Constitution of 1876 denies the governor the pardon power in all but this sharply limited situation. With out a recommendation from that Board, he cannot even give a pardon for a parking ticket issued in front of the governor’s mansion.
Indeed, one of the executions that George W. Bush got such grief over during the 2000 campaign was one he could not even give that 30 day reprieve to because of an earlier reprieve granted by his predecessor, Ann Richards.
And as i said above, I’ve been backing Perry’s opponent for some time now — and have been backing ANY challenger since shortly after the 2006 election.