To: Kartographer
The full Supreme Court decided? If so, I imagine a 5-4 vote.
Can you imagine the storm that would have ensued if Obama stepped in and commuted this killer's sentence from death to life in prison?
8 posted on
07/07/2011 5:10:03 PM PDT by
Trajan88
(www.bullittclub.com)
To: Trajan88
Can you imagine the storm that would have ensued if Obama stepped in and commuted this killer's sentence from death to life in prison? I don't believe Obama has that authority.
14 posted on
07/07/2011 5:12:42 PM PDT by
PalmettoMason
(Blacks are not inferior, but it is racist to hold them to the same standards as everyone else.)
To: Trajan88
Can you imagine the storm that would have ensued if Obama stepped in and commuted this killer's sentence from death to life in prison? POTUS only has pardon power over federal prosecutions ...
17 posted on
07/07/2011 5:14:53 PM PDT by
Lmo56
(If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
To: Trajan88
He couldn’t; he doesn’t have the power of clemency over a state inmate.
20 posted on
07/07/2011 5:15:58 PM PDT by
GAB-1955
(I write books, love my wife, serve my nation, and believe in the Resurrection.)
To: Trajan88
Yes, it was a 5-4 vote along the usual ideological lines.
Time for an amicable separation. How can those who voted to stay this rapist/murderer’s execution be my countrymen?
27 posted on
07/07/2011 5:18:23 PM PDT by
oblomov
To: Trajan88
Enjoy those executions while they still last. I predict the Supreme Court will eventually deem ‘em to be unconstitutional.
To: Trajan88
....
Can you imagine the storm that would have ensued if Obama stepped in and commuted this killer's sentence from death to life in prison? He doesn't have that power. That is reserved only for the Governor of the state of Texas.
57 posted on
07/07/2011 5:29:18 PM PDT by
Ron H.
(Help your neighbor find a job - turn in an illegal alien job stealer.)
To: Trajan88
The full Supreme Court decided? If so, I imagine a 5-4 vote.You got it. I'll let you guess which Justices were in the majority and which dissented.
201 posted on
07/07/2011 6:58:35 PM PDT by
Repeal 16-17
(Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
To: Trajan88
He has no authority over Texas courts, as ruled by SCOTUS in a previous case.
208 posted on
07/07/2011 7:17:17 PM PDT by
Feckless
(I was trained by the US Government to Kill Commies and Radical Moo-slims. Now ain't that irOnic?)
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