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Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell not a wuss when it comes to clemency for lifers

By Douglas A. Berman

Though Pennsylvania's outgoing Governor Ed Rendell has been in the news of late primarily because of this notable commentary concerning the NFL's decision to postpone the Eagles game due to Sunday's snowfall:  "My biggest beef is that this is part of what's happened in this country," Rendell said in an interview on 97.5 radio in Philly.  "I think we've become wussies. ... We've become a nation of wusses.  The Chinese are kicking our butt in everything.  If this was in China do you think the Chinese would have called off the game?  People would have been marching down to the stadium, they would have walked and they would have been doing calculus on the way down." Though I do not want to get too deep into a wussies debate, I do think the term wuss also serves as a fitting pejorative for chief executives who have been afraid to exercise their clemency powers...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 30, 2010 (boomark / email).