I really didn’t think he was going to do it. But yesterday, in his last day in office, President Bush did the right thing and commuted the sentences of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean!

On his last full day in office, President Bush commuted the controversial sentences of two former Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a Mexican drug runner in 2005.

The imprisonment of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean had sparked outcry from critics who said the men were just doing their jobs and were punished too harshly. They had been sentenced to 11- and 12-year sentences, respectively.

Their sentences will now expire on March 20 of this year.

Ramos and Compean were sentenced in connection with the shooting of Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, who was shot in the buttocks while trying to flee along the Texas border. He admitted smuggling several hundred pounds of marijuana on the day he was shot and pleaded guilty last year to drug charges related to two other smuggling attempts.

The very fact that these two men were even sent to prison was awful, and it’s even worse that they had to serve the time that they did, but I’m thanking God right now that President Bush did the right thing. Better late than never.

Hat Tip: Right Wing News