So does Dean, apparently.

I’ve come down hard on the Campaign to End the Death Penalty over their highly misleading “fact sheet” concerning Kevin Cooper, an inmate who is currently in San Quentin but will move to hell on February 10. Apparently, I did not come down on them hard enough. Here’s a made-up “fact” from these lying liars I forgot to mention before:

Josh Ryen, sole survivor of the attack, has always maintained that three white or Hispanic men killed his family. Josh and his grandmother have supported Kevin Cooper’s defense team and question Kevin’s guilt.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, Josh Ryen offered a somewhat different perspective in a letter he recently sent to Gov. Schwarzenegger:

The last memory I have of my family is seeing my mother, naked, dead and bloody, lying beside me, and knowing from the smell that everyone else was gone as well. Now I know for sure and beyond a shadow of a doubt that Cooper is the killer. I really want him to die, not only for what he did to me and my family, but because he tormented me so much with his claim of innocence.

Patterico worries about the possibility that an innocent person might be executed every once in a while. So do I. If it happens, let’s put the blame where it belongs: on Mike Farrell, Jesse Jackson, the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, and all the other little boys grown men who cried wolf.

I haven’t been following this closely, but it can’t be good news for Mikey Eisner that even the Disneys aren’t happy with Disneyland.

Via Suburban Blight comes today’s ‘Hat of the Day, an unnamed Denton, TX pharmacist who refused to sell a morning-after pill to a rape victim on January 23.

Mr. Hat has not issued any public statements, but a friend of the victim tells WFAA Channel 8 that Mr. Hat nonexplained his refusal to dispense the drug thusly:

This medication is designed to end life, and I cannot abide by that.

Well, gee. Maybe he shoulda thought about that before taking a job as a pharmacist at a store that carries it. Here’s hoping that Eckerd and the Texas State Board of Pharmacy decide they can’t abide him.

Dishonorable mention to Reuters, WFAA, the Ass. Press, and every other major media outlet that has covered this story but has not identified Mr. Hat by name, nor provided any explanation as to why they are unwilling and/or unable to do so.

UPDATE: Gene Herr, a.k.a., Mr. Hat, has outed himself and stated that he was fired over the incident. So were the other two pharmacists on duty that day, who Herr refuses to name, and who also refused to fill the prescription. Good bye and good riddance to all three of them.

Stop by Kelley’s to offer your condolences over her grandfather.