It looks to me like Huckabee just tried to make the sentence MATCH the sentence of others. Clearly that guy was an animal. Huckabee in no way advocated for his release. Had the man not received parole (he should not have), he would not have been able to commit the crime because he would have still been in prison.
If you are saying Huckabee should have known that reducing the sentence down from more than a lifetime of years to basically a lifetime of years would result in the man’s parole, then ok. I would need to know the data on that issue. But lots of monsters eligible for parole never get it. See Charles Manson. It does seem that sentence terms should match. I am not an expert on that. I do not think Huckabee is to blame for the parole. He is to blame for trying to make the sentence match others when perhaps this man deserved to be treated differently. That I do not know. NO ONE WANTED A BAD RESULT. Huckabee is not an advocate for letting violent criminals out of jail so they can slaughter people. In my view, people are manipulating this tragedy because they do not like Huckabee for other reasons.
Whether you view this as a bad decision or not, I view his intervention as a bad decision and as it turned out it was a bad decision. Donna has brought this up at least three times and trying to put a positive spin on this tragic situation without mentioning the repercussions of DuMond’s early release. There is nothing positive about any of this and it should probably be forgotten, not brought up again and again as a positive without looking at the end result she has been apprised of the outcome at least twice by me but chooses to post her puff piece and ignore the consequences of DuMond’s early release. I read the papers and having connections to Forrest City and the Stevens family we kept up with this. You are correct in your appraisal of Wayne DuMond. Governor Huckabee is not on my short list for President but I have no ax to grind with him. I’ve stated my reasons for objecting to that posted comment.
I’m sorry I neglected to send the following to donna when I originally posted it, I referred to her in it.
Whether you view this as a bad decision or not, I view his intervention as a bad decision and as it turned out it was a bad decision. Donna has brought this up at least three times and trying to put a positive spin on this tragic situation without mentioning the repercussions of DuMond’s early release. There is nothing positive about any of this and it should probably be forgotten, not brought up again and again as a positive without looking at the end result she has been apprised of the outcome at least twice by me but chooses to post her puff piece and ignore the consequences of DuMond’s early release. I read the papers and having connections to Forrest City and the Stevens family we kept up with this. You are correct in your appraisal of Wayne DuMond. Governor Huckabee is not on my short list for President but I have no ax to grind with him. I’ve stated my reasons for objecting to that posted comment.