As the governor of Texas, George Bush appeared to take a particularly hash line on justice and pardons, issuing the least number than any Texas governor since some time in the 1940's. This amounted to just one death sentence pardon, and 20 pardons for lesser charges.
As the president of the United States, approaching the end of his second term, George Bush has commuted just 4 sentences, out of more than 4,000 applications. Again, this is a very low number of interventions by a United States President.
Yet it seems strange then that of those four interventions, the most recent one has been for a personal friend of the President, Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
While fully acknowledging his friends' guilt, Bush the US President intervened and commuted the jail sentence that Libby received.
This seems like remarkably convenient double standards by a supposedly fair and christian man. Apparently out of all the thousands of requests for pardons received by the President during his two terms, Libby's case was just one of four which were a unique enough travesty of justice or harsh penalty to warrant Presidential intercession.
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