“The reason they work at the mansion is the experts in corrections that say that people who commit a crime of passion or murder as a crime of passion, are the least likely to ever commit another crime.”
Haley Barbour explains his rationale for allowing convicted murderers to work at the governor's mansion, citing expert opinions on crimes of passion.
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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…
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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.
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.