[Ditter]

There is one little hitch in your theory. Texas law forbids Perry from stopping an execution for longer than 3 days. He can give a 3 day extension but that is all. I remember this from when Bush was gov and people were ragging on him to stop an execution. I wish he would come out and say this to shut people up.

[Ditter]

I just heard someone on the radio say that Perry has the authority to give a 30 day extension to someone on death row. I distinctly remember from Gov Bush’s time in office that we were told it was 3 days because he caught hell from the libs about that.

[BobL]

“There is one little hitch in your theory. Texas law forbids Perry from stopping an execution for longer than 3 days.”

It’s 30 days, but your point is valid. However, it doesn’t matter...Obama is daring Perry to step in, even if just for 30 days - Perry cannot, of course, step in without losing any chance of becoming president...even for the 30 days.

That’s why it seems to me that Obama wants to strengthen Perry relative to the rest of the field, and it seems to be working, at least on this site.