Jackson Jambalaya

Agreed. A jury of his peers convicted him and Guv should not have pardoned him.

It isn't a republican or democrat issue as Moak suggests. Fordice pardoned 2. Musgrove didn't pardon any murders, but he sure suspended some of their sentences. Mabus pardoned one as well.

Reading the comments here and on the CL website, you'd think this is the first time this has happened. He pardoned some guy on the coast that shot someone at a red light. Has everyone forgotten about that??

You may agree or disagree with the pardon or the laws that allow the pardons, but this isn't the first time it has happened.


Frankly, I'm surprised everyone is so surprised.

Well, I voted for Barbour. But as a family member of someone who was murdered, Barbour's pardon is deplorable. Pardoning someone for robbery is one thing, but murder is another. I for one will not get over that. Regardless of all you did Gov., this is like shooting us the bird on the way out. Glad you are gone. And I know, others have done this. Still does not make it right or tolerable. There use to be a quote on the MDOC website that said "There is no justice until those unaffected by crime are as indignant as those who have been." I gues Barbour just showed a real life example of such.

M.Hill

Frankly, I'm surprised everyone is so surprised.

There was a grand total of TWO comments here before yours. Show us the "surprise" or STFU.

It happens with every governor when they leave office. If the criminal didn't rehabilitate to deserve the pardon, he'll be back in the system. Hopefully, the decision was made based upon recent admirable conduct and not political donations.

9:03,

That's why I included the CL in my comment.

"If the criminal didn't rehabilitate to deserve the pardon, he'll be back in the system"

9:36, let's just hope what puts him back in the system is not one of your family members!

The "someone" killed at the traffic light was the killer's ex-wife. Wife-killing seems to be a relatively venial sin, in Barbour's view of the world.

Radley Balko (of Cory Maye fame) wrote on Barbour's pardon a while back.

How about an update on 'The Sustahs'. They were pardoned last year. Any word on weight loss, kidney transplant, employment or contributions to society? Is Chokwe still making the circuit with them like a vaudeville circus act? Is there any way to find out the balance on their TANF Assistance Cash Cards and which Piggly Wiggly's they prefer for pork chops? We need this information. Get after it KF.

Barbour has a history of pardoning men who have brutally murdered women. Sad but true. This wasn't the 1st time he did this. Everyone should be outraged on both sides of the aisle.

Thanks for the mini-sermon Michael.

I read that there is a history of pardoning trustees who work at the mansion? Is this true? I saw the comment earlier about former governors. Maybe the issue is, why not employ non-violent offenders if this is the accepted practice? I would be looking at the DOC or whoever, and ensure that the practice of allowing violent offenders to serve as trustees in the Governors Mansion ends.

Fondren Harpy has lots of condemnation for Barbour BUT SAID NOTHING when Jim Hood let Robbie Bell walk right back to her life in NEJackson. #DISGUSTING #PROGRESSIVE #HYPOCRITE

#POT #KETTLE #HARPY #LADD #WHITEWASH

9:03 - you need to f in lighten up! Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and you telling people to STFU makes you look like a total douche!

January 9, 2012 8:35 PM = Sexist

8:45PM = Douche

Why the hell do we even have a trustee at the Governor's Mansion? What's the value of that to the taxpayer. Zilch! Think of the cost of that practice ~ somebody to oversee them, transport them back and forth to wherever they sleep (do they sleep in the mansion or are there slave quarters out back by the cistern?), manage their tracking paperwork and document their successes or failures and missteps and keep up with good-time days and make attendant computer entries. It's madness on many levels. What is the possible value of this practice? The excuse of 'it's always been done' is bullshit.

The problem here is NOT the guvnah', nor past guvnah's and their pardons. The problem, if you have one with the situation, is with the LAW. If the dems are that upset and hacked off about it, make it a point to change the law of the state so the opportunity isn't there for this to happen again? I know this raises a whole litany of further issues with the supposed or apparent 'abuses' of the law at hand, but HB did something he was well within his constitutional rights of doing!

11:20AM = Just because you have the "right" to do something doesn't make it the right thing to do. HB and the former guvs could have chosen not to do it. People should still use good judgment, even when they are within the law, and the judgment here (and by former guvs as well) was very poor.

Too bad Fox that Jim Hood doesn't get it either.

Still trying to understand WHY Haley would have pardoned so many individuals. Will never understand it. We need to all learn from this and force our elected officials to prevent any additional Governor's pardons in the future. Sad situation for the state of MS.