Mississippi govener pardons murderers who worked as his butlers

[jgreer]

Check it out

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/09/haley-barbour-pardons-dav_n_1194466.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/09/haley-barbour-pardons-dav_n_1194466.html)

[jgreer]

The former inmates are David Gatlin, convicted of killing his estranged wife in 1993; Joseph Ozment, convicted in 1994 of killing a man during a robbery; Anthony McCray, convicted in 2001 of killing his wife; Charles Hooker, sentenced to life in 1992 for murder; and Nathan Kern, sentenced to life in 1982 for burglary after at least two prior convictions.


Walker's mother, Glenda Walker, said Monday that Gatlin shot his estranged wife while she was holding their young baby, then shot her son in the head.


"He left that little baby on his dead mother's body," Glenda Walker said. "It was a horrendous murder."

[jgreer]

Bump for the republicans

[MMC]

The pardons outraged victims' relatives. Democratic lawmakers called for an end to the custom of governors' issuing such end-of-tenure pardons.

Members of the Mississippi House Democratic Caucus held a press conference at the Mississippi Capitol Rotunda and called for limits on governors' ability to pardon inmates. They said they would introduce legislation this year.....snip~

Epps, the corrections commissioner, told the AP in 2008 that the inmates who end up working at the Governor's Mansion are often convicted murderers because they are the ones who serve long enough sentences to build the trust needed for such a task.....snip~

So the Democrats now think they should impose their will due to barbour pardoning prisoners based on the crimes the convicts committed. Yet when there is a Democratic Governor in place it's alright to do so. So this is nothing more than Political posturing over nothing as the Dems don't want their power in such to be lessened.

Course then we the President throwing out Pardons to.....

http://www.newsytype.com/13660-obama-grants-pardons/

[roadmaster]

I think most people are against this type of behavior. He shouldn't have that much power and it happens not only r's but d's do it too.

The family of the victims are usually the last to know unless they keep a close eye at all times.I know a man growing up that made it his mission to get people to sign a petition keeping three men in jail for killing his daughter. They robbed her, raped, shot and threw her in a dumpster.

[roadmaster]

Yes, MMC the president too.

[MMC]

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Course he did do right when he Pardon the Turkey named liberty.....huh? :wink:

[MMC]

http://img1-cdn.newser.com/image/859502-6-20111228071159.jpeg

Obama 'Pardons' Sea TurtlesJust what crimes did these Sea Turtles committ.....eh? Or is this done as a mockery with such a questionable law over pardons?