Reply #9: I understand AH-Nuld is taking the matter up -- studying the request, any

[MADem]

way... Putting the condemned man aside for a moment, it is interesting to speculate on what AHNULD will do, and why.

--Will he go to the religious card (he and Maria are Catholic) and say 'thou shalt not kill?'

--Will he commute for political reasons? Or condemn for political reasons? What is the sense of the voting public in CA on this issue?

--Will he decide that he isn't comfortable 'putting someone down,' despite his movie roles where he kills a kazillion people in every scene? Or will he feel he HAS to refuse the request BECAUSE he is an action actor who totes weapons around in every film?

My sense of AHNULD is that he is all about AHNULD. Whatever decision he makes will have less to do with the condemned man, the families involved, or his conscience than it has to do with his political view of the situation.