A North Alabama judge who is now retired has written to Governor Robert Bentley, asking that he pardon a man he, the judge, sentenced to be executed.
Amazing admission by the judge, that he had been serving on the bench only six months when the case came before him, and that hindsight has shown him it was a wrong decision based on other murder cases he tried.
Bentley is a physician by profession, and he has only been in office eight months, but I'll bet the odds of his pardoning a death row inmate other than for new evidence proving the convict is innocent, are not great.
Then again remember Fob James in his last days in office? Changing to life in prison the sentence of a woman who was set to be executed? A lot of people though it was First Lady Bobby James who convinced the Governor to do it.
Bentley is a physician by profession, and he has only been in office eight months, but I'll bet the odds of his pardoning a death row inmate other than for new evidence proving the convict is innocent, are not great.
Then again remember Fob James in his last days in office? Changing to life in prison the sentence of a woman who was set to be executed? A lot of people though it was First Lady Bobby James who convinced the Governor to do it.
The comments on this article are interesting. Nobody's neutral on this.
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