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No matter how the Patrick campaign tries to spin this, Deval successfully saved cop killer Ray Songer's life by arguing that in 1974 he couldn't offer evidence of his good character. Excuse me, he killed a Cop but has good character??????? Don' t take my word for it, take the New York Times who on February 6, 1985 had this to say:

Less than a day before he was to die for killing a state trooper in 1973, Carl Ray Songer won an indefinite stay of execution from a Federal appeals court today, and the United States Supreme Court refused a request by attorneys for the state to intervene.

The United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta, voted 11 to 0 to have the entire court hear Mr. Songer's case along with that of another Florida death row inmate, James Ernest Hitchcock.

A three-judge panel of the appeals court that heard arguments in the case Monday had given Mr. Songer a temporary reprieve to block his execution, scheduled for today. His death warrant was to expire at noon Wednesday.

DeVal Patrick, an attorney for the Legal Defense Fund in New York, has argued that Mr. Songer, who has no previous convictions for violent crime, did not have a chance at his sentencing hearing in 1974 to offer evidence of his good character, background and education.

Deval Patrick - Together we can.... Let off Cop Killers and Rapists....