[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

One thing about this has been bothering me.

Isn't true that the Chief Executive can pardon a CONVICTED MURDER up to the moment before his death?

That being the case, how can Jeb say he can't interviene in a case that is criminal even by cruelity to animal standards?

[pollywog]

Isn't true that the Chief Executive can pardon a CONVICTED MURDER up to the moment before his death?

I would think there are MANY ways that Jeb could intervene, if only to order the tube back in while he does a investigation.!!

[concerned about politics]

That being the case, how can Jeb say he can't interviene in a case that is criminal even by cruelity to animal standards?

Gov. Bush could stop it because there's conflict of interest by the husband. There's evidence of foul play. Her medical records show gross abuse leading to her condition. Broken bones and such.
Bush just doesn't want to get his hands dirty. Ordering an investigation could stop it. He has the power to do it.

[shezza]

Jeb states even now that he cannot interfere with the ruling of the courts...yet by that argument, he could not issue a pardon or a stay of execution because THAT would be interfering with the court's decision of conviction and death sentence, which of course he DOES have the power to do. So his argument in Terri's case doesn't ring true, IMHO.