I think that really is a technicality. Here, the fact that these people didn't know that these murderers were up for pardons is a substantive problem with how the process worked.
Haley Barbour: “I think that really is a technicality. Here, the fact that these people didn't know that these murderers were up for…”
Editor's note · Context
Jeffrey Toobin critiques the argument made by Barbour's attorney regarding the pardons, emphasizing the importance of notifying victims' families.
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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?
These were decisions based on repentance, rehabilitation and redemption leading to forgiveness and the right defined and given by the state constitution to the governor to offer such people a second chance.
The power of pardon and state is to give people a second chance who have repented, rehabilitated and redeemed themselves.
He's 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 her head. And he's pardoned?