Haley Barbour: “He is 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…”

The government is not a very good communicator. The government doesn't do a good job of getting things across.

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.

That's why we have the power of pardon because we really do believe in second chances for people who get rehabilitated.

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.