“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.”
Barbour expresses his belief in the rehabilitation of inmates and the Christian principle of giving second chances.
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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?
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