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To: E who wrote (89565)	11/24/2004 11:40:44 AM
From: Ish	Respond to of 108807

<<Your CNN piece begins, "Lucas, Henry Lee(1936-2001) Murderer." and ends by saying it is unclear how many murders he committed, and "some" believe it was "just three" (including his mother).>> He was convicted of the Yellow Socks killing. Later it was found out he was in prison in Florida when that happened. That caused the board to commute his sentence so he could appeal and have the conviction dropped. He never appealed because he probably would have been convicted of another murder and executed.

To: E who wrote (89565)	11/24/2004 11:47:19 AM
From: Ish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Little something else about Texas executions. Note that the governor can only grant clemency upon a favorable recommendation from the Board of Pardons and Paroles. Without such a recommendation, the governor cannot do anything except grant a one-time, 30-day stay of execution. txexecutions.org

To: E who wrote (89565)	11/24/2004 1:07:58 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

"As a Christian who (presumably) believes in redemption, he had much more reason to commute instead of ridicule Carla Faye's impending death." As far as I know, Christian redemption is not a legal principle in the United States. BTW, the A&E piece was a short biography, the CNN piece was the interview, and his mother was not part of the "some", but rather one of the "just three." As for how many people each are believed to have killed, that is not the point. The point is that, in the case for which Lucas was condemned to die, there were apparently genuine legal questions (as opposed to imagined legal principles of Christian redemption) that, to the governor, were sufficient to justify commutation. In the other case, such legal issues never arose and were never the basis for requests for commutation. So you are left, in your condemnation of Bush, with nothing more than an unverifiable assertion by one reporter of a "mocking" incident. The reported could easily be fabricating details of his interview with Bush or, to give him the benefit of the doubt, he could easily have misheard or misconstrued Bush's answer to the question "what do you think she would have said to you?" due to the conditions under which the interview was conducted. In any case, the fact that it has been repeated thousands of times by bloggers and message board posters trying to justify their hatred of Bush does not prove the assertion.