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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: ManyMoose who wrote (89474)11/23/2004 10:07:17 PM
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He addressed the issue of capital punishment. Christians pleaded with him to spare the woman who had converted after murdering many people in the most grisly way. She had actually become a model prisoner and ministered to others quite effectively. He applied a short list of objective questions to her case, and others. I don't remember all the questions, but one was "Did she receive every consideration under the law" or something like that. The answer was, she had been treated fairly. He refused to commute her sentence.

He applied the same questions to an equally guilty person and concluded that he should commute his

That woman was Karla Faye Tucker.

What startled people most about Bush's not commuting her sentence wasn't that fact itself, and that he spends no more than fifteen minutes on commutation appeals (sometimes a little as four minutes; our president doesn't enjoy reading), but that he mocked the condemned woman publicly, to Talk Magazine, pursing his lips and whimpering as if in imitation of her, "Please don't kill me!"

I find that mean and repulsive. I think Bush doesn't understand a great many things.

The "equally guilty person" who got a commutation was Henry Lee Lucas, one of the worst serial killers ever captured.
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