What should happen to the pardoned prisoners in Mississippi?

They were legally pardoned by the governor, so I don’t see how – legally – they can be re-jailed.

It seems to me that this is political pressure gone wild. I am no fan of Barbour (although I like Mississippi for tourism), but he was the governor and this was a legal and official act.

All the kerfuffle is political correctness and the cult of the victim.

Let these guys stay free.

[By the way – the statement that these were ‘prisoners whose parole had been turned down’ is somewhat disingenuous. Of course they had been turned down. If their parole have been approved then there would be no need for a pardon. That’s the whole point of pardons – they allow people who would not otherwise be free to get out of prison.]

Anyway, they’re out, let ‘em stay out.

If I were the Mississippi Attorney General, I would seek an injunction to block the release of the more dangerous prisoners.

What is “Democritus overseas?”

What I want to know is, why in the hell did he do that??

@Dutchess_III There hasn’t been a good explanation. Five of them worked as Trustees at the Governor’s mansion; it is presumed he got to know them on a personal basis. Many of the others were physically out of prison and he wanted to make it easier for them to get jobs.

But he has not said what his motivations were overall.

I think that an investigation may be warranted to see if there was any payoff involved. If there was, then that’s evidence of a crime in itself.

I can understand the governor giving pardons to some who may have already served their sentences, but pardoning violent criminals currently serving time raises my hackles.