Haley Barbour: “The power of pardon in the state is to give people a second chance who have repented, been rehabilitated and redeemed…”

Energy is the lifeblood of our economy. Our national security depends on it.

Governor Haley Barbour agreed to suspend their sentences if Gladys Scott donated a kidney to her sister Janie Scott, now on dialysis.

I have no doubt in my mind that these men have repented, have been redeemed, have come back hard working to prepare themselves to go out into the world. I have no question in my life.

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…