Jan Brewer's Flunkies on the AZ Clemency Board Vote to Kill Daniel Wayne Cook

Today, four members of the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency - Jesse Hernandez, Brian Livingston, Ellen Kirschbaum and Melvin Thomas, voted unanimously (4-0) to kill Daniel Wayne Cook next Wednesday. This was no surprise to anyone; last year, as I reported, a mostly-different lineup voted to kill him, even though one of the ones who voted that way, Jack Lasota, admitted that Cook was now “a much better man” than the one who had been sentenced to death for a double-murder. The U....