Rehnquist wrote in 1998
…the heart of executive clemency is to grant clemency as a matter of grace…
An act of clemency transcends courtroom encumbrances and the factual burdens of the crime because by its very nature it is an act of grace of divine forgiveness.
The worst thing about the death penalty is that it places decisions of this magnitude not in the heart of the divine but into the heartless and graceless hands of people like Bush and Schwarzenegger.
Read Marjorie Cohn’s article for much more.
At 12:01 tonight we will all die a little.
