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Subject: Rest In Peace, Karla Faye Tucker

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Ned Depew

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Date Posted: 09:54:42 07/03/07 Tue

As Governor of Texas, George w. Bush signed more death warrants than any other state executive, before or since, in any state.

Among the hundreds Bush sent to death was the warrant for the execution of Karla Faye Tucker, a woman who participated in a dreadful dual murder while in a drug and alcohol induced frenzy.

But Tucker had reportedly undergone a sea-change in prison. She had received and responded to religious instruction - with genuine personal transformation according to all who knew her, including her guards, fellow-inmates and those who interviewed her before and after her "conversion."

She had become a model prisoner, involved in the education and counseling of her fellow-inmates. She had no discipline problems, and she expressed deep and painful contrition for her terrible crime. Those who knew her best were convinced that her transformation was genuine, and said so.

But in spite of this evidence and testimonials from those within the Texas prison system, as well as pleas from around the nation, and even appeals from world leaders including the Pope, Bush refused to grant the requested humane clemency of commuting her death sentence to "life-without-parole." "The law must take its course" he pronounced.

Yesterday, he declared Scooter Libby's sentence of 60 months in prison for his incontrovertibly demonstrated crime of breaking federal law by obstructing a legitimate investigation into wrong-doing, to be "unnecessarily harsh" and commuted Libby's sentence to probation only.

All Americans are equal, but Loyal Neo-Con Americans are head-and-shoulders more equal than others. Bush shames us all again.

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