“I learned a great lesson about government when we did the census in 1970. And that is that the government is not a very good communicator. That the government doesn't do a good job of getting things across. So I've been trying all my career to do a better job.”
Haley Barbour reflects on the government's communication failures and his efforts to improve it throughout his career.
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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.
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.
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?
For decades, our governor's mansion has been served primarily by -- mansion 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…