One commutation request Huckabee rejected as governor was that of convicted rapist Wayne DuMond.
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Mr Dumond left prison three years later and moved to Missouri, where he murdered a woman.
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In 1996 Mr Huckabee planned to release Mr Dumond on lack of evidence, but relented.
In 1985 Wayne Dumond was convicted of raping a teenager, a distant cousin of Mr Clinton's.
In 1992 Mr Tucker reduced Mr Dumond's life sentence, which allowed for parole.
But Huckabee supported DuMond's early release, and the convict raped and murdered a woman in Missouri after his 1999 parole.
The mother of DuMond's victim has vowed to campaign against Huckabee's candidacy.
Critics say Mr Huckabee pressured the parole board to release Mr Dumond and grant clemency to others: therefore, he is soft on crime.
He also has faced some anonymous dirty tricks: On Sunday, mysterious fliers accusing Huckabee of "lying" about his role in the Wayne DuMond parole controversy were left on car windshields outside his Greenville campaign stop.
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