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Topic: Hey Ricky! What's with Haley Barbour pardoning those murderers?


Topic Posted by: Mitch
Date Posted: Tue Jan 10 12:00:07 2012
Additional Comments:

I know they were trustees working in the governor's mansion.

I was shocked though when I heard his pardon wipes their records clean.  One of them just had his parole denied.

Apparently it's not the first time he's done this.  He pardoned four others before.

Any ideas?



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Posted by: ingyandbert
Date posted: Wed Jan 11 8:50:39 2012
Message:

Gov. Boorbour seems to have a fondness for murderers.  Not only did he free convicted killer David Gatlin (who shot his estranged wife in the head as she held their two-month-old baby, what a nice guy!) but this is not the first time he's opened the prison doors to let murders and other violent offenders loose on society.   IMO, the now (mercifully) ex-Governor could use a psych exam.

This from a news source:

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GOVERNOR BARBOUR'S TRACK RECORD ON PARDONS

This is not the first time Gov. Haley Barbour has pardoned criminals.

Others, listed below, were also enrolled in the prison 'trusty' program which allows convicts to perform odd jobs around the governor's mansion based on their good behaviour.

South Mississippi lawmakers unsuccessfully attempted to reduce Barbour’s constitutional clemency powers in 2008.

Bobby Hays Clark shot his ex-girlfriend in the neck in 1996 and was sentenced to 38 years in jail. But just 12 years after the crime, Barbour pardoned him without notifying the family of the victim.

Michael David Graham shot his ex-wife point-blank while she waited at a traffic light in 1989. Barbour suspended Graham's life sentence, and he was released.

Clarence Jones stabbed his ex-girlfriend 22 times in 1992 and was sentenced to life - until Barbour pardoned him in 2008.

Paul Joseph Warnock shot his girlfriend in the back of his head as she slept in 1989. He was sentenced to life in prison in 1993 but also pardoned in 2008.

William James Kimble was also freed despite a life sentence for robbing and murdering an elderly man in 1991.

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  • That's the guy, David Gatlin, whose victim's mother was on TV. Meanwhile, out here, the federal government has ordered California to release 33,000 prisoners this year. The prisons were only meant to hold something like 80K and there are 145K inmates. That says something, doesn't it?...Mitch
  • You'd think all those ''job creators'' would use the money they saved in taxes to build and staff prisons that can be contracted to the government to house those extra inmates. Seems like there'd be thousands of jobs in the planning, construction and running of the facilities. The government wouldn't incur the expense of building the prisons and could get a ''volume discount'' on the leases and salaries. After all, we're always hearing about how the private sector can do things chaper than the government. ~i&b
  • That's ''cheaper.'' ~i&b
  • ingy IMO they need to look at the laws and why so many are in prison. The prison system is the largest mental hospital in the world. The for profit contract prisons are the ones who push for immigration laws like in AZ because they weren't making enough money! We don't need more prisons we need more schools and hospitals eom CG
  • I agree with you. I am just surprised the conservatives aren't trying to capitalize on the problem. -i&b
  • OK I see the sarcasm there now! LOL eom CG

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    Posted by: Ricky
    Date posted: Tue Jan 10 20:44:36 2012
    Message:

    Well, when you're the King you can do whatever you wanna do, lol. 

    There has to be more to the story than we know.  What a slap in the face to the victims' families!  This ain't the first time he's broken all the rules to make his point -- running for public office without disclosing his financial interests, crowing about Katrina recovery while diverting government funds to the casinos in Biloxi and Gulfport that contributed to his campaign -- the list goes on & on.  He's the ultimate fat cat politician.

    At least we're finally rid of him. 

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  • Yeah, I saw the mother of one of the victims on TV. That's awful. Thanks for responding....Mitch

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