If you kill your spouse in Mississippi just ask Barbour for a pardon

Unlike most governors and presidents who have used their pardons to correct miscarriages of justice Governor Barbour has used his power to pardon convicted KILLERS.

Mississippi governors’ clemency powers are absolute, granted by the state Constitution, and can’t be appealed. Governors in most other states -- and the president -- have similar powers. But most grant pardons after people have served their time or when there are serious questions over whether justice was served in a conviction, not to release those convicted of violent crimes, a national pardons expert said.

Read more here: http://www.sunherald.com/2012/01/10/3678925_p2/barbour-pardons-more-than-200.html#storylink=cpy

Governor Barbour seems particularly fond of pardoning men who killed their spouses.