4 Cops gunned down in Washington coffee shop

[LaCroix]

Nawt as hawt.  Unless you're a certain Euroweenie.  But I doubt he'd pronounce himself Jesus.

if the man had made a motion picture, perhaps today he would be seen as an innocent product of a corrupt system?

@huckabee: regardless of whether it was right or not (at the time) to grant clemency to the man, this is, on the surface, seems pretty damning:


it is the south, though, so i wonder what the northeast or california looks like

[Eddie Teach]

Well, the numbers reflect both the bleeding-heartedness of the governor and the hard-assedness of the judiciary. So the numbers in other parts of the country may be lower due to more reasonable sentencing.

[DGuller]

Like in Texas.

[Eddie Teach]

Didn't W crack jokes about appeals from death row inmates?

[Fate]

He was Governor for 10 years, so the numbers may seem large at first. 70.3 per year doesn't really seem like that much.

[Barrister]

He was Governor for 10 years, so the numbers may seem large at first. Divide them by 10 to get an idea of what he was doing per yer. By my count, that would be 132.7.

The little graphic shows clemencies for all the states over the same time period.

[Fate]

He was Governor for 10 years, so the numbers may seem large at first. Divide them by 10 to get an idea of what he was doing per yer. By my count, that would be 132.7.

The little graphic shows clemencies for all the states over the same time period.

Oops.