[coloradan]

What did he do that he was pardoned for? And why hasn't Dukakis been charged with accessory to murder?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

If Governors are going to pardon these scumbags in the first place, I say that they have to let them live in the Governor's Mansion with them, sort of as a half-way house, while they're becoming productive members of society again.

*Smirk*

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Pardon all the killers.....

Guaranteed to be good business for undertakers, police and judges.

[Hoodat]

At his last parole hearing, Childs argued that he is sober and has participated in many jailhouse counseling programs.

Seeing how he is finally living a productive life, there is no way we should interfere with that by removing him from that wholesome environment.

[theDentist]

...he pulled off a string of armed robberies at South Boston liquor stores and was sentenced to four consecutive 15- to 20-year sentences. He was released after just seven years and was given a pardon in 1975 by then-Gov. Dukakis. The pardon erased his long criminal record and opened the door for Childs to get a handgun license ...

[Vaquero]

He also pardoned posthumously Sacco and Vanzetti....he got that one wrong too....

"The Los Angeles Times reported in December 2005 that an Orange County man found a letter allegedly written by Upton Sinclair in which Sinclair wrote that an attorney for the two men, Fred Moore, had confided to him of his clients’ guilt. Many conservative commentators, such as Jonah Goldberg of the LA Times, have responded by issuing blanket condemnations of the left’s support for various political prisoners."

and who can forget....Willie Horton.

[ncountylee]

The pardon erased his long criminal record and opened the door for Childs to get a handgun license and land a job with the Department of Youth Services.

Dukakis was a dangerous dork that said that even if his wife was raped and murdered, he would not support the death penalty for the thug.