State Supreme Court hears pardon arguments

State Supreme Court hears pardon arguments

Feuding attorneys asked the Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday to determine the validity of pardons that Haley Barbour gave to convicted killers and other convicts during his final days as governor.

Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr. said the court would not rule the same day, but he didn’t say when a decision would come.

“We want them to take enough time to do it right,” said Randy Walker, who objects to the pardons. Walker was shot in the head in 1993 by one of the men Barbour set free last month. That former inmate, David Gatlin, also fatally shot his own estranged wife as she held the couple’s baby.

AP
2/9/12