[itsinthebag]

Jackson said Williams, who was convicted of killing four people in two 1979 robberies in Los Angeles, had earned clemency and that Schwarzenegger's decision was about "making politicians look tough, but that does not make it right."

"earned clemency"? he's not serious is he? oh yeah, he is.

[Petronski]

How does someone who denies all of his crimes earn clemency?

I don't understand how they're making that leap. If he's innocent, he would deserve clemency, he wouldn't need to earn it. Their rhetoric is internally contradictory.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

I guess Jesse means that anyone who writes children's books has earned a license to kill without being killed.

[goldstategop]

ROFL. By murdering four people? He's had a life of ease and comfort and gotten to have many more years on earth than Albert Owens and Yen-I Yang, Tsai-Shai Yang and Ye Chen Lin ever did. He took the rest of their lives from them and I picture God having an account in Heaven and telling those people when they died He was sorry he couldn't stop them from being murdered but He will see to it they would somehow be repaid in full. And now behold - the evil man is finally getting his just desserts. See, in the end there is justice in the world and no man can flee his appointment in Samarra. The bells are tolling for that multiple murderer at last.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")