Suspected police shooter pardoned by Huckabee - Washington Times

Suspected police shooter pardoned by Huckabee - Washington Times

Here is more on the repeat offender who murdered 4 police officers in cold blood.

The headline is, of course, more about Mike Huckabee than the shooter but in reading the story I noted that while he his sentence was commuted--not "paroled" as the headline erroneously states--and he was released on parole in 2000 by the Governor Huckabee he returned to prison in 2004 after violating that parole. He was subsequently released from prison and made his way from Arkansas to Washington state where he was already facing charges relating to a rape and an assault on a police officer. There is no information as to when he got out of Arkansas prison the second time and Huckabee was the governor there until 2007.

Regardless of who released this person from prison, it is clear that he still should be there and that the original 95-year sentence that he was given in 1989 was correct and should have been carried out at the judge ordered. I would never advocate the removal of the power to pardon or grant clemency from a governor or the president, but this is what can happen when the hubris that comes with ascension to a high office is allowed to make decisions instead of common sense.

Four good people are dead. I mourn with their fellow officers and families.