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Originally posted by Catwoman
No, I meant you don't know that the other 151 mocked their victims.
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I know what you meant. I just think we've hit a wall in this discussion. The other 151 were convicted by a jury of their peers and sentenced to death.
Your original point requires that Bush had a role in the 152 executions. My point is that he had NO role - commuting a death sentence requires a finding of a) a flaw in the judicial process or b) new evidence (DNA or new witness, etc.) that exonerates the convicted. The only thing that happened in the CFT case was her so-called religious conversion. Had GWB commuted the sentence of an unpopular male serial rapist/murderer on the basis of his pre-execution religious conversion, folks would be accusing him of carving out exceptions for like-minded Christians and of thumbing his nose at the legal system.
Carla Faye Tucker through her phony conversion played the media like a violin and many people swallowed (and, apparently, are still swallowing) the hook. Don't feel bad, tho, she fooled a lot of other people too - some of whom are in little peices now.