Word: rapists
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Huckabee's faith-based politics have sometimes led him astray. As Governor, he supported letting convicted rapist Wayne DuMond out of prison--a cause championed by Huckabee's friend Jay Cole, a Baptist minister. DuMond then sexually assaulted another woman and killed her. In 1992 Huckabee argued for dealing with AIDS by quarantining those infected...
...Last Thursday, on a conference call with 70 county chairmen, a few people raised concerns about a recent spate of stories concerning a convicted rapist who, after Huckabee allegedly pressured the parole board on his behalf, was paroled and went on to rape and kill at least one other woman. Sarah explained her frustrations to those on the call. "I don't think it's hurting a lot of our support because one of the biggest misconceptions is that people think that governors actually have the ability to parole people and they don't. If anything the only action...
...disturbs me even more, we have not even addressed the genocide that’s going on and the infanticide in our own country with the slaughter of millions of unborn children.” Certainly Huckabee faces many hurdles. He personally intervened to let a convicted murderer and rapist, Wayne DuMond, out of jail, only for DuMond to commit rape and murder again. He has also been heavily criticized by groups like the Club for Growth for an extreme number of tax increases as governor. Finally, he has nearly no foreign policy experience, and his vague statements on Iraq...
...single death-penalty decision, Furman v. Georgia, in 1972 struck down more than 30 state laws and spared some 600 prisoners. This year the Roberts court will hear a case asking whether death is an excessive punishment for the rapist of a child. There is only one such prisoner on death...
...said the 51-year-old leader was being prosecuted for his religious beliefs and described the victim, Elissa Walls, now 21, who publicly revealed her identity on the last day of the trial, as "no shrinking violet" and her husband, first cousin Allen Steed as a "milquetoast," not a rapist. She had flirted and enticed her husband, Bugden said. It was an old, familiar tactic in rape cases. But prosecutor Brock Belnap won the day by arguing that what Jeffs did by urging the two to "go forth and multiply" was no different from sacrificing a young virgin...