Willie Horton Presidential Campaign Ad

In this ad with a demonic photo of criminal Willie Horton [wiki] was broadcast by allies of Republican George H.W. Bush against his opponent Democratic Michael Dukakis during the 1988 presidential campaign. The ad had a very important role for Bush to be selected as USA's 41st President.

Willie Horton was a convicted first-degree murder and had been sentenced to life in prison. But while as a subject of then Governer Dukakis' Massachusetts weekend furlough program since June 1986, he twice raped a woman in Oxon Hill, Maryland, stabbed and pistol-whipped her fiancé in April, 1987. After being caught in the state, Horton was sentenced to two consecutive life terms plus 85 years by Judge Vinent Fermia.

Now this case again attracted a lot of attentions during this year's presidential campaign, when Republican Rudy Giuliani accused Democratic Republican Mitt Romney (also a former Massachusett's Gov. & 2008 President candidate) was accountable for convicted murderer Daniel Tavares Jr.'s release from prison last July. Click here to read the full report on NewsMax.com Tags: Willie Horton, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, 2008, president, presidential campaign