Out of Chicago comes news that top Rick Perry aides pressured the head of the forensics commission before he was removed. Not that I want to keep hammering the way Perry handled this. Not at all.
3 comments
On a related note, the Houston Chronicle reported Sunday that Perry’s office declined to release records related to a late-hour request for a reprieve from Willingham’s lawyer. Similar records were released by former Gov. George W. Bush.
So nice of the Tribune and the NYT to keep us up to date on Texas events.
@ 2:38 pm on October 12, 2009
Slick Rick at work again. If Willingham was guilty based in part on other testimony and evidence, Perry should be very grateful and be willing to provide the records in order to validate his position.
He cannot do it, because the appearance is that he “raced’ through the execution and is doing everything to cover up his culpability.
Don’t get me wrong, if Willingham did in fact kill his children, then I have no porblem with the death penalty. It just appears to me that our gov’nr is intent on running the state on his own personal terms as if it is his own fifedom.
@ 3:29 pm on October 16, 2009
Leave a Comment
FrontBurner® launched in March 2003, the first blog in Dallas run by a media organization. This is where the editors of D Magazine come to waste a tremendous amount of time.
3 comments
On a related note, the Houston Chronicle reported Sunday that Perry’s office declined to release records related to a late-hour request for a reprieve from Willingham’s lawyer. Similar records were released by former Gov. George W. Bush.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6662113.html
So nice of the Tribune and the NYT to keep us up to date on Texas events.
Slick Rick at work again. If Willingham was guilty based in part on other testimony and evidence, Perry should be very grateful and be willing to provide the records in order to validate his position.
He cannot do it, because the appearance is that he “raced’ through the execution and is doing everything to cover up his culpability.
Don’t get me wrong, if Willingham did in fact kill his children, then I have no porblem with the death penalty. It just appears to me that our gov’nr is intent on running the state on his own personal terms as if it is his own fifedom.