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Of all the people who's sentence to commute...

Showing some compassion to a fellow necro, no doubt.
 
To put it in more perspective, how many people did he commute while serving as governor?

Sounds like a pretty damn vile person to commute. What were the circumstances?
 
Originally posted by: KidViciou$
http://www.rotten.com/library/...llers/henry-lee-lucas/

it's supposed that he killed between 100 - 600 people, but it's likely to be under 100
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FYI, the Governer of Texas can only commute a sentence if the Texas Board of Pardon and Paroles recommends it. They did in this case because of the glaring inconsistencies in the case in which he was convicted for. All of his convictions have been based on his sole confessions, many which have proven to be false.
 
Originally posted by: KidViciou$
and those inconsistencies would be???
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I just read up a little bit on him. Supposedly he was coerced to make some confessions (supposedly he confessed to thousands of murders) to get better living conditions and these confessions were basically the only basis in the original death sentence.
 
Originally posted by: KidViciou$
and those inconsistencies would be???
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This guy confessed to 3000 different murders, and while some authorities believe he killed 300-600. There are only two murders they have evidence linking him to. Everything else has gone on his sole confessions, which has been proven unrelible and some cases coercied(sp?).

Im not saying he wasnt a murderer, or a evil vile person. The one of two muders they can say without a shadow of a doubt he committed was the murder of his mother, for which he served a measly ten years for but there were issues with the case death penalty case in Texas. Cheif amoing them is state investigators working for the parole board determined he was not in Texas at the time of the murder.
 
okay, i can accept that

but i recall that there was a kid who was about to be executed in texas, and his case was so damn shaky. this is when bush was in office, he didn't commute the sentence and the kid was executed. i wish i remember the details of it so i can read up on it, if anyone remembers plz let me know.
 
Originally posted by: KidViciou$
okay, i can accept that

but i recall that there was a kid who was about to be executed in texas, and his case was so damn shaky. this is when bush was in office, he didn't commute the sentence and the kid was executed. i wish i remember the details of it so i can read up on it, if anyone remembers plz let me know.
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Basically all the hoopla over the death penalty carried out under Bush isnt about guilt or innocence its about incompetent defense attornies not offering up reasons(mitigating factors) why the jury shouldnt sentence the person to death. Most times on the appeals to commute rest solely, not because of innocence but because their original lawyers didnt mention 1. they were mentally handicapped 2. sexually abused as a child or 3. physically abused as a child. Like 2 or 3 are an excuse :roll: hell some have the gall to say they are born again chrisitans and model inmates and thus dont deserve to be executed *cough*. I remember all these people clamoring about Karlya Faye Tucker, who was convicted of two murders, with sizable amounts of evidence plus one or more other bodies buried in her flower beds. Womens groups and death penaly opponents were all "she was abused as a child" "she was a teenage prostitute" or my favorite excuse "she was beaten by the man she killed". She didnt just kill one man she killed three(convicted for two).

Bush, granted clemency to the only case there was evidence of innocence, other cases have been overturned by the Cout of Criminal Appeals. Cases are given clemency or reversals because their defense attorneyes werent competent enough to get their guilty client life in prison.

After 5-15 years of appeals, without evidence supporting innocence a sentence should not be commuted.
 
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