Commentary: Matt Bevin's Appalling Exit

[Demovictory9]

But before he left Frankfort for good Friday, he left behind a trail of 428 last-minute pardons and commutations to criminals – including many extremely violent rapists and murderers – that tell a very sordid tale of who the former governor considered worthy of freedom.

Some of them will turn your stomach:

He pardoned and commuted the sentences of Patrick Baker, convicted of reckless homicide in 2017. The Louisville Courier Journal reported that Baker's brother and sister-in-law held a fundraiser for Bevin's gubernatorial campaign, raising $21,500 that went directly into Bevin's pocket as payment on a loan he made to his own campaign. Baker served two years of a 19-year prison sentence while his co-defendants are still in prison.

Bevin pardoned and commuted the sentences of Dayton Jones, who was convicted in 2016 of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.
He pardoned Micah Schoettle, convicted in 2018 of repeatedly raping a Kenton County girl since she was nine years old.

Another pardon went to Delmar Partin, who was convicted of beheading a woman and stuffing her body in a barrel.

Also pardoned was Kathy Harless of Grayson County, who gave birth to a baby son in the outhouse of a flea market and murdered the newborn by throwing him in a cesspool.

Then there was Daniel Scott Grubb, who said he was drunk when he murdered Jeremy Johnson by throwing a cinder block at him. When he found Johnson's body the next day, he panicked and found a friend to help him bury the corpse.

And on and on and on it goes.

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[dawg day]

1. He claims the child molester must not really have raped the girl because---

"her hymen was intact."

(1. Penetration isn't the only way to rape a child, and 2. in many cases the hymen is not broken.)

He's a creep. He has 9 children. He deliberately exposed them-- oh, apparently he's an anti-vaxxer too-- to chicken pox.

[dhill926]

2. sick fuck....

god almighty....

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. this was our governor -- a model Republican