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I know very little about James Clayton beyond the fact that he was\r\nkilled by George W. Bush on May 25, 2000, making him the 130th\r\nprisoner to be executed in Texas during Bush's tenure as governor.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Clemency is an issue Bush swears has little to do with him.\r\nWhenever you write to Bush asking him to grant clemency to a death\r\nrow inmate, you get back a conservatively compassionate letter\r\nsaying, in effect, that Bush feels duty-bound to honor the vow he\r\nevidently believes he took as governor promising to kill as many\r\nprisoners as he can; and that, in any case, he does not have the\r\npower to grant clemency on his own.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The latter claim, though not technically false, is the moral\r\nequivalent of an outright mendacity, the kind of misleading statement\r\nthat only a politician could try to pass off as \"true\" in any\r\nmeaningful sense. As Alan Berlow pointed out in the May 11, 2000\r\nissue of the online magazine Salon<\/i>, in an article titled \"The\r\nHanging Governor\":<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Under Texas law, Bush can only commute a death\r\nsentence if he receives a recommendation to do so from the state\r\nBoard of Pardons and Paroles. Absent such a recommendation, Bush's\r\nlegal authority is limited to granting a 30-day reprieve.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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