On Thursday, a convicted murderer serving a 25-year sentence wasset free in Texas. He wasn’t set free because DNA analysis determined he was innocent. Nor was there some legal technicality successfully raised on an appeal. Daniel Perry, who was an active-duty Army sergeant at the time of his crime, never disputed that he shot and killed 28-year-old Air Force veteran Garrett Foster, in front of multiple witnesses, during a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Austin. Rather, Perry was pardoned by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott as Abbott promised to do the day after the jury issued its verdict.