Every Kossack should be writing freakin' "Letters to the Editor" in droves to their local papers reminding the US public about Karla Faye Tucker and George W. Bush. You know that the rightwing nut jobs will be writting letters praising Bush for this and if we do not show the fucking hypocrisy, they will get away with it.
So start writing those letters and on the flip is the story of Tucker and W. for those of you that don't remember the story.
From Wikipedia -
Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959–February 3, 1998) was convicted of murder in 1984 and sentenced to death. The case entered the U.S. and international news because she had become a born-again Christian while in prison and George W. Bush, then governor of Texas, had to decide on her request for clemency, which he ultimately denied. Tucker became the first woman to be executed in Texas since the American Civil War.
Okay, so what is the story here. We continue on.
Under Texas law, each death penalty case has one chance to be reprieved by a governor without the recommendation of the Board of Pardons and Paroles. The board must recommend the second reprieve in order for it to be granted. All 18 members of the Board of Pardons and Paroles are appointed by the governor (Clark, 2000). Before Tucker was executed, there were pleas for clemency from Waly Bacre Ndiaye, the United Nations commissioner on summary and arbitrary executions, the World Council of Churches, Pope John Paul II, and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, among other world figures. Unusual pleas came from conservative American political figures such as Newt Gingrich and Pat Robertson, interceding on her behalf. Tucker did not ask for a pardon, only commutation of her death sentence to life in prison. Huntsville Prison's warden testified that she was a model prisoner and that, after 14 years on death row, she likely had been reformed. Despite these pleas, Bush signed her death warrant.
Tucker asked only to not die, she would stay in prison for the rest of her life. The Pope and Pat Robertson ask him to commute the sentence. Bush said "FUCK HER!" and put her to death.
This tells you everything that you need to know about George W. Bush - Mr. Compassionate Conservative.