You have to understand one thing about Bush's position as governor. He had NO RIGHTS as governor of Texas to commute the death sentence UNLESS it was to set the prisoner free. His only other option was a 30 day delay, at which point, if the prisoner was unable to clear himself, he'd be put to death anyway.
Bush was in a no-win position. He didn't personally assign these people to death....they did, after all, have a trial. Whether you support the death penalty or not is another question. I happen to approve of it, though not in the willy-nilly fashion that Texans seem to.
However, to paint Bush with such broad strokes is only doing so because journalists haven't done the homework to understand why he signed all those approvals.... |
