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.
Haley Barbour: “I think that really is a technicality. Here, the fact that these people didn't know that these murderers were up for…”
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Jeffrey Toobin critiques the argument made by Barbour's attorney regarding the pardons, emphasizing the importance of notifying victims' families.
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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?
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