Kenneth Foster will not be put to death for a murder no one believed that he committed. Texas Gov. Rick Perry has commuted his sentence to life imprisonment:

Mr. Foster was arrested with three accomplices after a night’s armed robbery spree through San Antonio that ended with one of his companions gunning down a 25-year-old law student, Michael LaHood Jr. The jury convicted Mr. Foster and sentenced him to die, along with the gunman, Mauriceo Brown, finding that he should have anticipated that the group’s crimes could lead to murder.

It might be easy to praise Perry for commuting the sentence, but why praise him? It took intense media pressure for Foster to avoid death.