In the interest of honesty, G. W. Bush also asked Texas to not execute this guy.
If true, it just reinforces the old saying that 'the apple never falls from the tree'.
SAD...'W' could have been a good president along with being a good man.
I’m not up on all the details, but I believe the situation and reasoning was different prior to an ICJ 2008 ruling.
Why would GWB want this guy to live?!
Did some checking.. my understanding is the ICJ (International Court of Justice) decreed the USA was in violation of the Geneva Convention and ‘directed’ President (not Governor) Bush to review the decision, which he did, possibly knowing full well the United States Supreme Court would decide that in fact he did not have the authority to do so, which was a decision it later made. As governor, Perry could have commuted the sentence.
Didn’t W have to leave the campaign trail when he was running for president to oversee the execution of another lefty cause célèbre... a murderer they claimed was retarded?
I think we all need to acknowledge that GW Bush was not/is not a conservative. He’s at best a moderate, and in reality, to the left of center. Obama and the Dems like to portray him as a conservative, but history belies that. Obama tried to differentiate himself from Bush during the campaign for his own political purposes. He was going to close Gitmo, unlike the “conservative” Bush. He was going to get out of Iraq, unlike the “conservative” Bush. He was going to make the rich pay their fair share of taxes, unlike the “conservative” Bush. He criticized the Bush deficits. But when it came right down to it, he kept Bush’s policies for the most part. The reason is not that Obama is conservative. The reason is that Bush was liberal.
My understanding is that when Dubya called Perry to try to get him to put a stay on the execution Perry said “I don’t want to be disrespectful Mr. Bush but you are not the President anymore and this is a state matter”. I guess he told Obowbow something similar.