Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

Criminal Law

: The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

Killings in WA state may set-back any "progress" on clemency, parole and JLWOP

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Old Clemency May Be Issue for Huckabee By KATE ZERNIKE Published: November 30, 2009 NY Times When Mike Huckabee, a former Southern Baptist minister then serving as governor of Arkansas, granted clemency to Maurice Clemmons nine years ago, he cited his age: Mr. Clemmons was 16 when he began the crime spree for which he was sentenced to more than 100 years in prison. Now, Mr. Clemmons is being sought as the suspect in the killing of four uniformed police officers, execution-style, on Sunday as they sat in a coffee shop near Tacoma, Wash., writing reports. Mr. Huckabee, now a Fox News talk-show host, has been leading the pack of possible Republican contenders for president in 2012. But the killings of the police officers are focusing renewed attention on his long-contentious record of pardoning convicts or commuting their sentences...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 01, 2009 (boomark / email).