The power of pardon in the state is to give people a second chance who have repented, been rehabilitated and redeemed themselves.
Haley Barbour: “The power of pardon in the state is to give people a second chance who have repented, been rehabilitated and redeemed…”
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Haley Barbour discusses the purpose of granting pardons in Mississippi.
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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…
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?
The government is not a very good communicator. The government doesn't do a good job of getting things across.