Mario Cuomo has the blood of ten thousand murder victims on his hands.
He vetoed the Death penalty 12 years in a row and every year there were over two thousand murders in NYC
Pataki signed the bill and murders dropped by half.
Governor Carey really infuriated me with his posturing on the death penalty. When I was 15 growing up in a then-integrated, now-black neighborhood in Queens, one of the local brothras, and a guy I knew pretty well, one day approached a group of people waiting on line to take the Q-111 bus to the Parsons Boulevard IND station. He inquired of a young man on line what time it was. The young man was a Jewish man, who had recently been discharged from the Army, where he served as a first lieutenant and infantry platoon leader in Vietnam. As the then-young and never-to-grow old man turn to look at his watch, the brothra plunged a knife into his heart. This fact is undisputed. The killers mother took him to the police station, his clothing covered with his victim’s blood.
Seven years later, on turning 22, this vile racist lunatic was released into the community. His first day out, he went down to the laundromat, took a small white teenager who just happened to be there and stuffed him into a dryer and deposited a quarter.
It was around this time that Governor Carey announced that he would block any death sentence in New York as long as he was Governor. At light bulb went on in my head, “Governor Carey doesn’t give a shit about people like me.” I was cured of liberalism in a flash.