{"id":8801,"date":"2012-03-11T15:05:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T13:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/last-inmates-pardoned-by-mississippis-barbour-released\/"},"modified":"2012-03-11T15:05:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T13:05:41","slug":"last-inmates-pardoned-by-mississippis-barbour-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/last-inmates-pardoned-by-mississippis-barbour-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Last inmates pardoned by Mississippi&#8217;s Barbour released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* &#8216;End of pardon-gate&#8217;<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Pardoned South African citizen may be deported<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Robbie Ward<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>STARKVILLE, Miss., March 10 (Reuters) &#8211; The last three<br \/>\ninmates still in prison who had been pardoned by former<br \/>\nMississippi Governor Haley Barbour were released on Saturday,<br \/>\ntwo days after the state&#8217;s highest court cleared the way for<br \/>\ntheir freedom.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The release of the prisoners could be the final chapter in a<br \/>\ncontroversial saga that began in January when Barbour issued<br \/>\nmore than 200 pardons as he left office, the most in modern<br \/>\nMississippi history.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The pardons prompted an outcry from victims of those<br \/>\nreleased and the families of victims. Many in Mississippi were<br \/>\nperplexed why a law-and-order conservative Republican granted<br \/>\nthem.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Barbour said he showed mercy out of a spirit of forgiveness<br \/>\nand to give the inmates a second chance.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood challenged 10 of the<br \/>\npardons before the state Supreme Court, which ruled on Thursday<br \/>\nthat Barbour had the constitutional authority to grant them.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the end of pardon-gate,&#8221; said Matthew Steffey, a<br \/>\nconstitutional law professor at Mississippi College School of<br \/>\nLaw. &#8220;The court made clear there was no clear jurisdiction to<br \/>\nchallenge a &#8230; valid pardon.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* &#8216;End of pardon-gate&#8217; * Pardoned South African citizen may be deported By Robbie Ward STARKVILLE, Miss., March 10 (Reuters) &#8211; The last three inmates still in prison who had been pardoned by former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour were released on Saturday, two days after the state&#8217;s highest court cleared the way for their freedom. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-8801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}