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tenderfoot

(8,424 posts)
Fri Dec 13, 2019, 01:10 AM Dec 2019

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

It’s 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 couldn’t 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 hasn’t been this angry in a long time. He called the governor’s 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

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Bevin pardons a KY man convicted of beheading a woman and stuffing her in a barrel (Original Post) tenderfoot Dec 2019 OP
Check campaign contributions, familial financial connections, or religious bullshit correlations... RockRaven Dec 2019 #1
i'll say it again- whose pardon is he hiding in this shit storm? mopinko Dec 2019 #2
THIS ALL DAY. As horrifying as this is, from what is he trying to distract us? Good call! EOM Grown2Hate Dec 2019 #5
Nice. How to win friends and influence people. WheelWalker Dec 2019 #3
This stinks to high heaven! VarryOn Dec 2019 #4
Has he pardoned any women? How many PoC? Maru Kitteh Dec 2019 #6
3 guesses. And the first two don't count. BuffaloJackalope Dec 2019 #7

RockRaven

(14,784 posts)
1. Check campaign contributions, familial financial connections, or religious bullshit correlations...
Fri Dec 13, 2019, 01:14 AM
Dec 2019

because those have been reliable links for other corrupt GrOPer misuses of power in the past.

 

VarryOn

(2,343 posts)
4. This stinks to high heaven!
Fri Dec 13, 2019, 01:22 AM
Dec 2019

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)
6. Has he pardoned any women? How many PoC?
Fri Dec 13, 2019, 07:33 PM
Dec 2019

A have a serious hunch the most important feature needed for a Bevin pardon is a penis attached to a white body.


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