Haley Barbour: “The party is about the people. Not people running around with hats every four years at conventions.”

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

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?

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.

The idea that somehow shooting your girlfriend or your wife is a lesser crime than killing a stranger is a relic that we hoped had been left very much in the past.