“For decades, our governor's mansion has been served primarily by -- mansion by inmates from the state penal system. Almost all murderers, because the experts say, people who committed one crime of passion in their life, after they have served 20 years, and these have served on average 20 years, are the least likely to ever commit another crime.”
Haley Barbour defends his decision to pardon inmates by stating that those who committed crimes of passion are less likely to reoffend after serving time.
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The power of pardon and state is to give people a second chance who have repented, 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?
That's why we have the power of pardon because we really do believe in second chances for people who get rehabilitated.
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.