terms for armed robbery. one of them needs a kidney transplant and the other has agreed to be the donor. justice correspondent pete williams has more. reporter: they ve been locked up in a mississippi prison for 16 years. jamie and gladys scott serving life sentences for an armed robbery. punishment civil rights groups consider extreme. now the naacp is praising governor haley barbour s decision to let the women out on humanitarian grounds. thank you, governor barbour, when you re right, you re right. it s a shining example of how the power should be used. reporter: governor barbour did not say he was acting to create an injustice or call the sentence toos harsh. instead he said the older sister, jamie scott, 38, needs a kidney transplant to survive. the sisters no longer pose a threat to society, governor barbour said. medical condition creates a substantial cost to the state, $200,000 a year. the release of gladys scott will be allowed only if she donates one of her kidneys to