Haley Barbour

Governor Barbour going to pardon us for our aches and pains and heartache that we have to suffer? Is he going to pardon a child that had to grow up without a mother?

He is in jail for 18 years. She was 20 years old when she died and had her child laying in her arms when he shot her in the head. And he's pardoned?

The power of pardon in the state is to give people a second chance who have repented and rehabilitated and redeemed themselves.

What makes this Harry Bostick's case so stunning is that he was pardoned by Mississippi's outgoing governor, Haley Barbour.

The power of pardon in the state is to give people a second chance who have repented, been rehabilitated and redeem themselves.

The power of pardon in the state is to give people a second chance who have repented, been rehabilitated and redeemed themselves.

For decades, our governor's mansion has been served primarily by inmates from the state penal system, almost all murderers, because the experts say people who committed one crime of passion in their life, after they have served 20 years…

I am comfortable every one of these who were mansion inmates are rehabilitated and have redeemed themselves, and they deserve a second chance. And that's what we as Christians believe.

For decades, our government's mansion has been served primarily by mansion by inmates from the state penal system. Almost all murders because the experts say people who committed one crime of passion in their life, after they serve 20…

I have no doubt in my mind, that these men have repented, have been redeemed, have come back hard working to prepare themselves to go out into the world. I have no question in my life. When my grandchildren are over at the governor's…

But because of this sort of feudal system where the king, the governor, taps a few people on the shoulder in this seemingly irrational way, it's discredited the whole policy.

The reason they work at the mansion is the experts in corrections that say that people who commit a crime of passion or murder as a crime of passion, are the least likely to ever commit another crime.