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Politics and Todd Willingham

By Steve Hall

"Perry's denial of stay could become campaign issue," is the title of Austin American-Statesman political columnist W. Gardner Selby's latest.Nothing could trouble a governor more than the thought that he or she has let an innocent person die."That's the decision that's irreversible," recalls former Gov. Mark White, who said gratefully that he never had a death row case in which the inmate claimed innocence. "If you make the wrong one, it's a horrible thing," White said. A corollary: Nothing of such intensity should be trifled with in politics. Still, I wonder if Gov. Rick Perry's handling of a Corsicana man's case will become fodder for challengers rating him a failed leader. The explosive message: Perry's judgment is so weak he didn't stop the killing of a man who experts say didn't murder his children...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 10, 2009 (boomark / email).