Haley Barbour: “My head of the National Guard might as well have been a Civil War general . . . because he could only find out what…”

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.

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.

The power of pardon in the state is to give people a second chance who have repented, been rehabilitated and redeemed themselves.

Governor Barbour going to pardon us for our aches and pains and heartache that we have to suffer? Is he going to pardon a child that had to grow up without a mother?