Bevin pardons a KY man convicted of beheading a woman and stuffing her in a barrel

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Anonymous wrote:This is why normal people should not vote for psychopaths. Not for fake tax cuts, the ridiculous wall or the unqualified judges for life!

+10000

Put nutjobs in office and they do horrible things.

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If any of these people reoffend he should share the same sentence.

My heart goes out to the friends and families of the murders victims

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would he do this, except to be an ahole?

He is an ahole, so no other reason needed. Except one of them had family who gave him thousands of dollars.

+1. This. A couple of thou for a pardon.

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Delmar Partin was convicted of strangling a woman and stuffing her body in a barrel.

Micah Schoettle was sent to prison after a middle schooler testified that he had repeatedly sexually assaulted her, starting from the time she was 9.

Patrick Baker was found guilty of killing a man and impersonating a United States marshal during a robbery.

All three men walked out of prison this week after Kentucky’s outgoing governor, Matt Bevin, issued more than 400 pardons and commutations during the final days of his administration.

His actions set off a controversy that continued to ripple across the commonwealth on Friday, days after Mr. Bevin, a Republican whose administration was fraught with conflict and who lost re-election in a red state by more than 5,000 votes, officially left office.

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/12/13/us/matt-bevin-kentucky-crimes.amp.html

Lawmakers called for investigations, and prosecutors complained that neither they nor victims’ families had been consulted or notified. The Courier Journal, based in Louisville, ran a front-page article quoting a relative of a slain victim with the headline: “Matt Bevin can rot in hell.”

Among those seeking an investigation was a leader of Mr. Bevin’s own party, Robert Stivers, the Republican president of the State Senate. Late Friday, he asked the United States Attorney’s Office to look into the matter.

“From what we know of former Governor Bevin’s extreme pardons and commutations, the Senate Republican majority condemns his actions as a travesty and perversion of justice,” Mr. Stivers said in a statement. “Our citizens, and especially the crime victims and their families, deserve better.”
Drawing particular scrutiny was the pardon of Mr. Baker, who was convicted of shooting and killing a man during a home invasion in 2014; he was later sentenced to 19 years in prison. His family hosted a fund-raiser for Mr. Bevin that raised $21,500 last year, The Courier Journal reported.

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These words from the NY times article are chilling:

"“I’m disgusted,” said Rob Sanders, the Republican commonwealth’s attorney in Kenton County, near Cincinnati, who had supported Mr. Bevin and donated to his campaign. His office had prosecuted the case against Mr. Schoettle, who was convicted by a jury of rape, sodomy and sexual abuse of a child. Mr. Schoettle had been at the start of a 23-year prison sentence when the outgoing governor deemed the investigation and prosecution into the case “sloppy at best.” He was released on Wednesday.

The victim’s mother, who asked not to be identified in order to protect her daughter’s identity, said that she had been at home making dinner and a milkshake when she got a call from the commonwealth’s attorney’s office on Wednesday night.

“I just picked the blender up and threw it against the wall,” she said in a phone interview. “I still have to scrub the ice cream off my walls.”

She said that her family had only begun to recover from the trial, which wrapped up last year.

“I still haven’t wrapped my mind around it, how is this even possible that he’s walking around scot-free now?” she said. “It scares me to think that he knows he got away with it.”

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Bevin's family must be so proud of him. /s

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Anonymous wrote:
Bevin's family must be so proud of him. /s

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

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Anonymous wrote:
These words from the NY times article are chilling:

"“I’m disgusted,” said Rob Sanders, the Republican commonwealth’s attorney in Kenton County, near Cincinnati, who had supported Mr. Bevin and donated to his campaign. His office had prosecuted the case against Mr. Schoettle, who was convicted by a jury of rape, sodomy and sexual abuse of a child. Mr. Schoettle had been at the start of a 23-year prison sentence when the outgoing governor deemed the investigation and prosecution into the case “sloppy at best.” He was released on Wednesday.

The victim’s mother, who asked not to be identified in order to protect her daughter’s identity, said that she had been at home making dinner and a milkshake when she got a call from the commonwealth’s attorney’s office on Wednesday night.

“I just picked the blender up and threw it against the wall,” she said in a phone interview. “I still have to scrub the ice cream off my walls.”

She said that her family had only begun to recover from the trial, which wrapped up last year.

“I still haven’t wrapped my mind around it, how is this even possible that he’s walking around scot-free now?” she said. “It scares me to think that he knows he got away with it.”

Wow, this is super disturbing and sad! Where is Karma or God when you need them! Why are people like Trump/Bevin go unpunished throughout their life.

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The cruelty is the point. This is the face of the fascist GOP.

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Anonymous wrote:The cruelty is the point. This is the face of the fascist GOP.

Bevin has gone so far off the deep end with these disgusting pardons that even some GOP KY reps are calling for an investigation. At least he’s just validating for the people of Kentucky that they made the right choice in kicking him out.

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Anonymous wrote:Delmar Partin was convicted of strangling a woman and stuffing her body in a barrel.

Micah Schoettle was sent to prison after a middle schooler testified that he had repeatedly sexually assaulted her, starting from the time she was 9.

Patrick Baker was found guilty of killing a man and impersonating a United States marshal during a robbery.

All three men walked out of prison this week after Kentucky’s outgoing governor, Matt Bevin, issued more than 400 pardons and commutations during the final days of his administration.

His actions set off a controversy that continued to ripple across the commonwealth on Friday, days after Mr. Bevin, a Republican whose administration was fraught with conflict and who lost re-election in a red state by more than 5,000 votes, officially left office.

He pardoned men who sexually abused a 9 year old a middle schooler?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Delmar Partin was convicted of strangling a woman and stuffing her body in a barrel.

Micah Schoettle was sent to prison after a middle schooler testified that he had repeatedly sexually assaulted her, starting from the time she was 9.

Patrick Baker was found guilty of killing a man and impersonating a United States marshal during a robbery.

All three men walked out of prison this week after Kentucky’s outgoing governor, Matt Bevin, issued more than 400 pardons and commutations during the final days of his administration.

His actions set off a controversy that continued to ripple across the commonwealth on Friday, days after Mr. Bevin, a Republican whose administration was fraught with conflict and who lost re-election in a red state by more than 5,000 votes, officially left office.

He pardoned men who sexually abused a 9 year old a middle schooler?

Yes. Because Bevin “felt” like he didn’t do it and that the little girl was lying.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The cruelty is the point. This is the face of the fascist GOP.

Bevin has gone so far off the deep end with these disgusting pardons that even some GOP KY reps are calling for an investigation. At least he’s just validating for the people of Kentucky that they made the right choice in kicking him out.

When he pardons a child rapist and still only “some” GOP have a problem with it, the cruelty is the point, cruelty, violence and hyper masculinity being defining features of fascism.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The cruelty is the point. This is the face of the fascist GOP.

Bevin has gone so far off the deep end with these disgusting pardons that even some GOP KY reps are calling for an investigation. At least he’s just validating for the people of Kentucky that they made the right choice in kicking him out.

When he pardons a child rapist and still only “some” GOP have a problem with it, the cruelty is the point, cruelty, violence and hyper masculinity being defining features of fascism.

Bevin was Trump’s candidate. Trump campaigned for him. Imagine that.

In the murder cases maybe the feds can claim these suspects violated their victim’s civil rights. I can’t believe no judge put an injunction on their release until the cases could be examined for new charges.