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Its not clear if Betty Carnes was killed by asphyxiation or by the eight blows to her head that Delmar Partin delivered with a metal pipe. The coroner couldnt tell which killed the mother of three first, but it was very clear that her head was then chopped off and placed on her lap in a 55-gallon barrel that was destined for a toxic waste site.
On Monday, departing Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin pardoned and commuted the sentence of Partin, who was convicted of killing her at the factory where they both worked in Barbourville in 1994.
In his order, Bevin said he pardoned Partin because potential DNA evidence had not been tested.
Given the inability or unwillingness of the state to use existing DNA evidence to either affirm or disprove this conviction, I hearby pardon Mr. Partin for this crime and encourage the state to make every effort to bring final justice to the victim and her family, Bevin wrote.
The prosecutor on the case, Tom Handy, said he hasnt been this angry in a long time. He called the governors pardon mystifying.
I think its arrogance of one who has a God-like image of himself, Handy said of Bevin. And a lack of concern for anybody else.
more: https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article238320918.html
RockRaven
(14,784 posts)because those have been reliable links for other corrupt GrOPer misuses of power in the past.
mopinko
(69,812 posts)Grown2Hate
(2,005 posts)WheelWalker
(8,943 posts)VarryOn
(2,343 posts)Did he have a history ofsta ding on principle to pardon similar cases where DNA evidence had issues? I'm going to guess he didnt.
Still, I'm grateful another execution has been avoided
Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)A have a serious hunch the most important feature needed for a Bevin pardon is a penis attached to a white body.