[Osx-nutters] Re: Jeb Bush on the Death Penalty in Florida - Google Video

[Chuck Bennett]

On Jan 9, 2007, at 12:23 PM, LuKreme wrote:

> He has the power to grant clemency.  Something BUsh never did.

Bzzzt..    Actually, that's not true.  In 1998 Bush  commuted Henry  
Lee Lucas to life.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lee_Lucas>

I'll bet you 10 bucks you've never read that anywhere though.   It  
interferes with the Bush was a hanging governor meme
that the left pushes.

Fact is that the BPP has recommended clemency for a condemned killer  
only twice since 1990  (I could only find data to 1999)

and one of those was Lucas.  (lucas was a prolific and somewhat  
infamous serial killer)

Bush commuted Lucas' death sentence to life in prison for the murder  
of a woman, identified only as"Orange Socks," near Georgetown

So think about the press that Bush has received on the death penalty  
in Texas.   The Lib's would have you believe that he is blood thirsty.
but of the TWO chances  the BPP gave him, he allowed one execution  
and commuted the other and the one he commuted was a serial killer..

The point is that  unless a majority of the Board of Parole and  
Pardons votes to send it to him for clemency
he only has the power to grant a single 30 day stay of execution.

If the Board votes against clemency, the Governor has no
independent power to commute the sentence, only to grant a stay.

The single 30 day stay  is the only move he can take on his own and  
after that it falls back to the BPP to recommend
clemency.   Since they've only done that twice since 1990, I wouldn't  
hold my breath.

=c=