Republican Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin recently pardoned a man who was convicted of murdering a woman who had recently ended their affair.

Bevin, who lost his reelection bid to Democrat Andy Beshear last month, had issued several controversial pardons and commutations during his final days in office.

Earlier this week, Bevin pardoned and commuted the life sentence of Delmar Partin, who was found guilty of murdering Betty Carnes in 1993, a co-worker whom he had been involved with romantically. The coroners were unable to determine if she died via asphyxiation or by repeated blows to her head from a metal pipe. Her severed head was found in a 55-gallon barrel. She was a mother of three.

“Given the inability or unwillingness of the state to use existing DNA evidence to either affirm or disprove this conviction, I hearby…