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Pardons: Barbour's Misstep Still Reverberating

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That's the title of an editorial in today's Jackson Clarion-Ledger in Mississippi.  LINKGov. Haley Barbour's inconsistency over convicted murderers is still reverberating, raising questions about the role of governors in granting clemency. Last week could be considered a bizarre sort of Tale of Two Cities. One convicted murderer, Michael David Graham, serving as a trusty in the Governor's Mansion, got a suspension of his sentence by Barbour, while down in death row at the State Penitentiary at Parchman, another convicted murderer, Dale Leo Bishop, was refused a stay by Barbour and was killed by lethal injection. Making the tale of two murderers even more strange, Bishop was convicted in part based on the testimony of a cohort who actually dealt the fatal blows, but got life in prison rather than a death sentence...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 29, 2008 (boomark / email).