Virginia’s Executive Hypocrite Is At It Again…
June 10, 2008
http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-06-10-0127.html
EDITOR, TIMES-DISPATCH:
Contradicting decisions by a jury and by the United States Supreme Court, Tim Kaine has allowed a multiple murderer to live, and we all know why: because of his personal religious beliefs.
Here, then, is my question: when is Kaine going to man up and exercise another of his core Catholic beliefs (and in the bargain contradict another decision by the Supreme Court), and begin interfering with the executions of other people “who are unaware of the punishment they are about to suffer and why they are to suffer it”…aborted fetuses?
—Me
June 10, 2008 at 15:54
Thanks to an alert Womangenius.
Sorry, inside joke.
June 10, 2008 at 15:03
For your analysis and commentary:
1992 Herbert Bassette possible innocence
1994 Earl Washington possible innocence
1996 Joseph Payne possible innocence
1997 William Saunders rehabilitation of inmate. Prosecutor and judge from trial recommended clemency
1999 Calvin Swann Gov. James Gilmore noted that prison officials said Swann’s behavior on death row had been “nothing short of bizarre and totally devoid of rationality.” The prosecuting attorney said that he would not have sought the death penalty if life without parole had been available at the time. Gilmore noted that the jury had been misinformed about the degree of Swann’s mental illness. (Wash. Post, May 3, 1999).
2005 Robin Lovitt – Governor Mark Warner commuted the death sentence of Lovitt to life without parole because a state court clerk had illegally destroyed evidence from Lovitt’s trial that could have been used in his appeals. The governor believed a clemency was necessary to maintain the pulic’s trust in the justice system.
June 10, 2008 at 08:46
I didn’t forget it. I attached it. And congratulations to the pope-ernor for allowing 5 jury decisions to stand! That’s what he’s supposed to do.
I’d like to know who of those last 4 commuted how many of those 7.
Unaddressed is the thrust of my post. Care to comment?
Thanks for reading, MK
June 10, 2008 at 08:38
You forgot this: “Kaine, who opposes capital punishment, has let five executions proceed. This was the first time he commuted a death sentence. Governors L. Douglas Wilder, George Allen, Jim Gilmore and Mark R. Warner commuted a total of seven death sentences since executions were allowed to resume in 1976.”