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Barbour Pardons Enough for 20 Football Teams
If you counted up all the pardons and sentence suspensions -- 222, over eight years -- Haley Barbour made as governor, you'd have enough for 20 football teams. And if …
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Why Not the Scott Sisters?
After former Gov. Haley Barbour pardoned more than 200 people at the end of his term earlier this week, supporters of Jamie and Gladys Scott say they don't know why …
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Crime
Barbour Pardonee Involved in Fatal Shooting
A man who received a pardon from former Gov. Haley Barbour is a suspect in a shooting in Calhoun County.
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The Barbour Pardons: How We Got Here
July 2008: Gov. Haley Barbour grants clemency to five convicted criminals assigned to work in the governor's mansion by the Mississippi Department of Corrections after reducing their status' to minimum …
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Barbour's Shameful Pardons
We first heard that then-Gov. Haley Barbour had pardoned another wife-killer Saturday night on WLBT after the Saints game. From there, the news snowballed, with another wife-killer added to the …
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Crime
Pardoned Ex-Prisoner Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter
One of the ex-prisoners who received a pardon from then-Gov. Haley Barbour has pleaded guilty to manslaughter after he killed another man in an exchange of gunfire.
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Green Stops Pardons; Barbour Explains, Sort of
Also see: JFP investigation of Barbour's 2008 Pardons of Domestic Killers
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So, When Did Barbour Have a Change of Heart on Pardons?
Hmmm. When you poke just a little at Barbour's history on and attitudes about pardoning criminalseven men like Cory Maye who shot a police officer who burst into his home …
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AG: Barbour ‘Abused' Office With Pardons
Update 8:26 p.m.: Hinds County Circuit Judge Tomie Green has granted Attorney General Hood's injunction, saying, "There is a substantial likelihood of success ..." in the case of Hood's challenges …
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Supreme Court Hears Pardongate
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Keep Up the Reform Momentum
Former Gov. Haley Barbour's unprecedented spate of last-minute pardons brought numerous issues regarding some of Mississippi's antiquated customs into the glaring light of national media attention.
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Keep Up the Reform Momentum
Former Gov. Haley Barbour's unprecedented spate of last-minute pardons brought numerous issues regarding some of Mississippi's antiquated customs into the glaring light of national media attention.
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Court: Pardon Does Not Mean Clean Criminal Record
A pardon by the governor is not grounds to wipe clean a criminal record, the Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled.
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Barbour Pardons Helped Many More White People Than Black Ones
I'm sure this will come as a surprise to no one, but it's official: Haley Barbour's last-minute pardons overwhelmingly benefitted whites. A Reuters team, including stringer and JFP political freelancer …
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Rape Victim: Fix the System
A rape victim asked Gov. Haley Barbour why he was allowing her rapist out on furlough. His answer may surprise you. Or maybe not.
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[Your Turn] Fix the System
The recent flap over Haley Barbour's 200 pardons and commutations has highlighted problems in our current gubernatorial clemency processes. At my request, the staff of the legislative Performance and Expenditure …
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Fix the System
The recent flap over Haley Barbour's 200 pardons and commutations has highlighted problems in our current gubernatorial clemency processes. At my request, the staff of the legislative Performance and Expenditure …
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Pardongate Draws to a Close
Two months after Haley Barbour's last-minute clemency acts sparked political controversy around Mississippi and the country, the Pardongate episode has came to a close. In a 6-3 vote handed down …
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Barbour to DV Victims: ‘You Can't Trust Us'
Also see: JFP Domestic Abuse Archive and 2008 investigation of Barbour's domestic pardons.
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Pardongate: Continuum
Imagine that every person who received a pardon from Gov. Haley Barbour did exactly what the state constitution says and ran a newspaper ad for 30 days before they received …
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