No Mercy For Alaska Governor Who Pardoned Company Convicted Of Killing Worker- February 7, 2008 The Anchorage Daily News was as upset as we were by (former) Governor Frank Murkowski's pardon of a company convicted of negligent homicide in the 1999 death of a backhoe operator on a Cordova hydroelectric power project job site (which I wrote about here). The company had also stiffed the state on a quarter-million-dollar fine and interest resulting from the death of Gary Stone who was killed in an avalanche. State job safety officials had warned the company about avalanche dangers at the job..http://spewingforth.blogspot.com/2007/01/no-mercy-for-alaska-governor-who.html |