Haley Barbour: “Because the taxpayers who are being very generous, they -- we owe it to them to be sure that anybody that gets federal…”

But because of this sort of feudal system where the king, the governor, taps a few people on the shoulder in this seemingly irrational way, it's discredited the whole policy.

For decades our governor's mansion has been served primarily by inmates from the state penal system, almost all murderers, because the experts say people that committed one crime of passion in their life, after they have served 20 years…

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.

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