[You Dirty Rats]

Poor Tookie -- if it hadn't been for the recall, he would have had TWO chances at escaping his fate:

- Davis gives him clemency

- Power Failure

[Carry_Okie]

Davis gives him clemency

Arnold has issued more pardons and clemency orders than did Davis.

[goldstategop]

Gray Davis would have denied clemency also. This is a state in which support for the death penalty is wide and deep. There's not much support for clemency, which would benefit serial killers, a group for whom there's not much public sympathy. I don't see how the decision could have come down any other way today.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")