Hot off the wire from CNN:
In his last days in office, outgoing Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour pardoned two men convicted of murder, a state official said Monday…
OMG, is it possible I’ve been wrong about Haley Barbour all these years? Is it possible he’s not a complete, top-to-bottom, front-to-back vicious asshole? Could he really be correcting some hideous miscarriage of justice? Nah—
Both men, according to the affiliates, were working as trusties at the governor's mansion.
I would imagine killing people is much easier if you don't know them? Just guessing, although I have no use for the scum bag.
Posted by: knowdoubt on January 10, 2012 5:03 AMIt's up to four now; details at the link below. The two new murderers were also trusties at the governor's mansion. Somebody's got to stop this guy before he pardons again.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/09/justice/mississippi-murder-pardons/index.html
i consider the death penalty murder, most civilized countries have gone past that and in fact, consider it as a "hideous miscarriage of justice" in itself and on its on merits. I could go on but..
Posted by: knowdoubt on January 10, 2012 5:36 PMoops, pardon me, not about the death penalty, I get it now. My bad. Our prisons are full of people who shouldn't be there, We have 5% of the world's population and 25 percent of it's prison population, but he managed to find some of the worst that should be there to turn loose. I did say he was a scum bag.
Posted by: knowdoubt on January 11, 2012 5:29 AMI bet the pardoned were all white, too...
Posted by: Bendra on January 11, 2012 10:22 AMI bet they weren't, Bendra. Whoever heard of a "house whitey?"
Posted by: Lou Garou on January 11, 2012 10:41 AM14 now, and who knows how many more?
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/10/justice/mississippi-pardons/index.html?hpt=ju_c2
Posted by: Buck on January 11, 2012 12:43 PMHmm, curiouser and curiouser, Buck. I no longer know what to think. More details here:
http://www.thegrio.com/politics/haley-barbour-pardons-more-than-200-in-last-days-as-miss-governor.php
Posted by: Jerry Doolittle on January 11, 2012 1:16 PM