[Republic of Texas]

The way to handle this, if you truly thought that innocent people had been executed, was a CASE BY CASE review. Anything else is just grandstanding.

[steve50]

According to Ryan he made the efforts to allow the system to reform itself, it refused. I guess he made the decision he couldn't live with the error rate.
You don't execute an innocent man, you murder him. Some can't accept that.

[pepsionice]

The governor could have set a good example by establishing a case by case review by outside agencies...but he didn't even want to try that. I would guess that the state will attempt to take 'pardon' capability away from the governorship and establish some 3-man commission that have authority over that. As for the Republicans...my guess is that it will be a major charged up issue in two years and that the democrats are destined to take the state.