No, it wasn't. The perp was given that sentence for a reason, and, despite what the silly racist Huckabee said, it WASN'T because he was poor and black.
I don't think ANY Executive sshould be letting ANY felons out of prison early. If we have any problem with our justice system, it most certainly isn't that violent felons are spending too much time in prison.
BTW, did ya notice whom Huck's boy was found with? A double murderer who served all of 14 years before being paroled.
Sure, if one were to take Huckabee's action in a vacuum, indepedent of the fact that most violent criminals should already have been in prison (heck if you could remove it from the rest of Huckabee's weird predilection for freeing violent felons), you might have a case for some bit of understanding. As it stands here in the real world, you don't.
The Judge who sentenced this guy was one of those who recommended commuting his sentence. So, I ask you...why would you put someone up to a unreasonable standard that no one, including you could follow?
We can all agree that sometimes these bad guys get off early or should not have gotten off at all, but we cannot base our entire penal system on keeping people locked up for the rest of their lives unreasonably. Case in point, California’s three strikes and you get life sentencing without chance for parole. I owned an apartment complex in Sacramento and in it was the attorney of the guy who received a life sentence for stealing a bicycle out of someone’s garage. His previous two felonies did not include violence or a gun, but were felonies. The attorney was so sick of this judgement he could no longer practice law and who can blame him...it was barbaric.