Reply #2: Wasn't Former Gov Bob Casey Also Pro-Life? [View All]

[mermaid]

I know he was anti-death-penalty, I remember that is basically what killed then-Lt. Gov Mark Singel's chances when Ridge was running against him, because Singel ended up Acting Governor for a couple of weeks while Casey underwent kidney-liver transplant (that was in itself a debacle...folks speculating he'd gotten bumped to the front of the line) and they pro-death penalty folk tried to get singel to sign a bunch of death warrants in Casey's absence, and singel refused, saying he was going to run the Governor's office the way he believed Casey would, rather than how he wanted to, because he was only Acting Governor.

I specifically remember the ruckus made over the death warrant for one Martin Appel, who apparently even WANTED to die, and for whom Casey, nor Singel, would sign. If memory serves, Appel had held up a bank in Bath, PA (between Wind Gap and Bethlehem) and had wound up with...was it three or six dead in the resulting gun battle with cops...and of the dead, I remember, was a State Trooper.

At any rate, I seem to remember Bob Casey Sr. as also being pro-life, but I may be mistaken. I DO know, however, that if he in fact WAS pro-life, then he was at least consistent in that pro-life stance by also being anti-death-penalty.