AtDTDA 212 Spoiler/Political Spam

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

               Doug Berman, a Ohio State University law professor 
               who specializes in pardons, said the president may 
               have just been pointing to the Justice Department 
               process as a way to “avoid responsibility” for the 
               political flap over the Border Patrol agents’ case. 
               But Bush has always used his pardon power 
               sparingly—dating back to his days in the Texas 
               governor’s mansion. In 1998, Bush came under 
               enormous political pressure to commute the death 
               sentence of Karla Faye Tucker, a convicted murderer 
               who had a well-publicized conversion to Christianity. 
               But despite pleas from conservative evangelist Pat 
               Robertson, Pope John Paul II and many others, Bush 
               refused to save her life, and Tucker became the first 
               woman executed in Texas since the Civil War.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17507199/site/newsweek/page/3/

               They all lived in fear of the Governor, forever to and 
               fro in Jeshimon and apt to arrive anywhere in town 
               without warning. What impressed a first-time viewer 
               was not any natural charisma, for he had none, but 
               rather a keen sense of something wrong in his 
               appearance, something pre-human in the face, the 
               sloping forehead and clean-shaven upper lip, which 
               for any reason, or none, would start back into a 
               simian grin which was suppressed immediately, 
               producing a kind of dangerous smirk that often 
               lingered for hours, and which, when combined with 
               a glistening stare, was enough to unnerve the boldest 
               of desperadoes. Though he believed that the power 
               that God had allowed to find it way to him required a 
               confident swagger, his gait was neither earned nor, 
               despite years of practice, authentic, having progressed 
               in fact little beyond an apelike truge. The reason he 
               styled himself the Governor and not President or King 
               was a matter of executive clemency. The absolute 
               power of life and death enjoyed ba a Govenor within 
               his territory had its appeal. He traveled always with 
               his "clemency secretary," a cringing weasel named 
               Flagg, whose job it was to review each day's 
               population of identified malefactors and point with 
               his groomed little head at those to be summarily 
               put to death, often by the Governor himself, though, 
               being a notoriously bad shot, he preferred not to 
               have a crowd around for that. "Clemency" was 
               allowing some to wait a day or two before they were 
               executed, the number of buzzards and amount of 
               tower space being finite. AtD 212

               America's Biggest Serial Killer...   155 Homicides ! 
                       And Hundred's more attempts, with scheduled 
               dates getting last minute stays . . . 
               More than any other elected official in 
               recorded American history !

http://www.ccadp.org/serialpresident.htm

http://www.ccadp.org/serialpresident.htm

http://www.texecutions.com/


http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tslac/20096/tsl-20096.html