killers who had worked as servants in the governor s mansion. those killers were already free when the state s attorney general moved to block the pardons. but five other serious felons were still in prison. from left to right, a drug dealer, a woman convicted of serious assault, a rapist, not shown here, an accessory to murder, and a convicted killer. they re about to hit the street. now, the court ruling in a 6-3 vote that pardons may not be set aside by the judicial branch and that the final decision on pardons rested entirely with the governor. but it s primarily the governor s judgment that victims families and survivors were questioning. governor barbour, you ll remember, refused to come on the program to defend his decision. his people said no over and over again, by e-mail and on the phone, face-to-face when we asked our ed lavendera to try to get some answers from the governor. governor, ed lavendera from cnn. do you mind if we talk to you real quick? let me get
that pardons may not be set aside by the judicial branch and the final decision rested entirely with the governor, but it s entirely the governor s judgment that the victims families are questioning. barbou rr wouldn t come on the show. governor, ed lavendera with cnn, can we talk to you real quick? let me get my instructions. can you talk to us in a second? he couldn t give us a second and walked right inside the building, but not before showing us what he thought of the questions. can you talk to us about the charges? we ll wait for you out here, then. told me to stay where i m cold. can we get a few minutes to talk about the pardon? when the supreme court rules it will be time to talk. i m not so presumptuous as to predict what the supreme court is going do. the supreme court ruled so we contacted mr. barbour s office to see if he would make good on his promise to talk, and his press officer said no, he s traveling, busy. we asked for a phone interview. sh
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neighborhoods are now raging battlegrou battlegrounds. a doctor there said bodies began coming in before the sunrise and says everyone is waiting to die. an activist echoed that earlier on cnn. what keeps you going? we have no choice, no other choice. we are dying slightly, and we tried to save each other at least, i mean, to keep somebody alive. because we believe we are all going to die here. with the death toll rising by the day, the u.n. is expected to take up an arab league proposal calling for a joint monitoring mission in syria. neighboring turkey, which has been critical of the crackdown in syria may offer to host a conference on what to do next. republican senator john mccain wants to help the syrian rebels. we can work with other countries to provide assistance in a broad variety of ways, and by the way, military equipment should not be an option, it should not be is an option that should be considered but maybe not directly. we can give them communication
government s brutal onslaught in homs, day five, where neighborhoods are now raging battlegrou battlegrounds. a doctor there said bodies began coming in before the sunrise and says everyone is waiting to die. an activist echoed that earlier on cnn. what keeps you going? we have no choice, no other choice. we are dying slightly, and we tried to save each other at least, i mean, to keep somebody alive. because we believe we are all going to die here. with the death toll rising by the day, the u.n. is expected to take up an arab league proposal calling for a joint monitoring mission in syria. neighboring turkey, which has been critical of the crackdown in syria may offer to host a conference on what to do next. republican senator john mccain wants to help the syrian rebels. we can work with other countries to provide assistance in a broad variety of ways, and by the way, military equipment should not be an option, it should not be is an option that should be considered