I hope you're right, because it'll be a cold day in Hell before any Arkansas governor pardons Echols, Baldwin or Misskelley. Look at how hot passions still run among those who believe those young men to be guilty.
There's no way a politician is going to take on that rage, particularly not when the men in question are already out of prison.
I had rather got the impression that the tide in Arkansas was turning and that there is hope that reason and sanity will eventually prevail!
News247 If you feel that way, having thought through all the evidence and trial transcripts etcetera, then you must feel very badly let down by the authorities who were prepared to not only release two men, sentenced to life +, for time served but also for doing the same to someone on Death Row. Were I to have been perching on the fence over this case then the Alford Pleas would have made any doubts I might hae had go right out the window.
Forget the mistake Huckabee made over that pardon during his tenure, this could rebound on the State's whole judicial system if they really were child killers.
When political expediency and 'popularity polls' can trump Justice then it is obvious that something is not quite right. We just have to hope and pray that someone of high integrity has the moral courage to admit that the state, led by Burnett, Fogelman and Davis, made a ghastly error of judgement. I am hoping that Prosecutor Scott Ellington emerges as 'that someone'.
This case is never going to go away now. Even if someone else is investigated, charged and convicted, it will still stand as a prime example of what can go so very wrong when incompetent police, sanctimonious ambitious judges and DA's who aspire to be judges all converge on one case. The arrogance of the latter is staggering and very frightening.
Meanwhile, patience is needed, hard though it is!
Miranda