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To: JillValentine; fr_freak

If it's only up to the jury, why was the governor involved? (rhetorical question)


31 posted on 12/12/2005 1:39:04 PM PST by loreldan (Lincoln, Reagan, & G. W. Bush - the cure for Democrat lunacy.)
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To: loreldan

The governor has the power to either stop or not stop a death sentence that a jury has decided on. He has no power to sentence anyone to death on his own.


37 posted on 12/12/2005 1:43:22 PM PST by JillValentine (To be compassionate to the cruel is to be cruel to the compassionate.)
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