While this makes me less likely to support Huck, I am amused at the MSM’s treatment of this issue.
When GW was running, they couldn’t do enough stories about the death sentence in Texas, and what a killing machine George was.
Now they want us to be upset that Huck was soft on crime.
Huckabee Was a Commutation and Pardon Machine
___ Here are the figures for neighboring states since 1996, when Huckabee took office (and keep in mind the population of these states is nearly 20 times ours):
___ >> Louisiana – 213.
___ >> Mississippi – 24.
___ >> Missouri – 79.
___ >> Oklahoma – 178.
___ >> Tennessee – 32.
___ >> Texas – 98 (in-cludes 36 inmates released because they were convicted on drug charges with planted evidence).
___ Total: 624 vs. Huckabee’s 703.
___ Governors in neighboring states almost never grant killers clemency, while Huckabee has commuted the sentences of a dozen murderers.
http://holycoast.blogspot.com/2007/12/huckabee-was-commutation-and-pardon.html