Ellington

Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann's office released the full pack of executive orders former Gov. Haley Barbour issued to pardon or suspend the sentences of more than 200 people in the state. The documents provide some insight into Barbour's rationale for making each. Follow the Jackson Free Press' coverage of Pardongate here.

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165747

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The irony of this nice beefy PDF from Delbert Hosemann is that his office tried to charge the JFP hundreds of dollars in staff time to "take the orders out of the books" when we did the original investigation of Barbour pardoning killers of wives and girlfriends in 2008. We couldn't afford the fee, so we went to small papers and police departments around the state to get more details about the crimes. Now, Delbert just puts it all in a PDF. Grrr. (Glad to have it now, though.)

Author

DonnaLadd

Date

2012-01-12T18:56:50-06:00