To: Dallas59
If he was wrongly convicted why did he get a pardon? Why didn’t they completely exonerate him?
12 posted on
03/01/2010 2:24:05 PM PST by
pfflier
To: pfflier
I'm not sure where the word "pardon" originally came from in this case. "Exonerated" would probably be better.
From the article:
Gov. Rick Perry sent out a statement saying that he gave Cole the state’s first posthumous pardon, saying he was innocent of the rape conviction...
21 posted on
03/01/2010 2:51:24 PM PST by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: pfflier
A pardon a Governor can do on his own initiative usually and quickly. It doesn't prevent further investigation clearing the man.
23 posted on
03/01/2010 3:03:15 PM PST by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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