Despite what you might have heard–or thought you heard–about the convicted Arkansas rapist freed while Mike Huckabee was governor who went on to kill two Missouri women, you ought to take a look at Murray Waas’ piece today on the case.
There’s more to this than first meets the eye, not the least of which is that the case became something of a rallying cry for the anti-Clinton brigades because the perpetrator, Wayne Dumond, was convicted while Clinton was governor and one of Dumond’s victims was a distant Clinton cousin. So the political pressures that were brought to bear on Huckabee were different than the usual law and order variety.
