Haley Barbour: “The government is not a very good communicator. The government doesn't do a good job of getting things across.”

The idea that somehow shooting your girlfriend or your wife is a lesser crime than killing a stranger is a relic that we hoped had been left very much in the past.

What makes this Harry Bostick's case so stunning is that he was pardoned by Mississippi's outgoing governor, Haley Barbour.

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

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