Given Huckabee's gruesome history on related matters, it's tempting to say that he deserves any demagoguery he's on the receiving end of because of this. But it would be wrong. As Matt says, on its face there's nothing unreasonable about granting clemency to a someone...
crime and punishment
Dave linked to this outburst below. It's worth noting that when American Thinker Robin from Berkeley describes what she calls the "wilding of Sarah Palin," she fails to mention that.
Several commentators in the Polanski thread are apparently taking the view that if a particular exercise of criminal punishment is unlikely to deter crime or rehabilitate the offender, then punishing.
One problem with pointing out that if torture and preventative detention are such nifty tools in the fight to keep Americans "safe" why aren't we using them against common murderers, given that they're about 10,000 times more common than terrorists, is that lots of people...
Though I'm not a British historian, this is supremely cool. As Sharon Howard explains, the new Old Bailey site not only allows folks to search the records from more than.