The stench of corruption.... This is inexcuseble. A black man is framed and the GOP c^nt Haley Barbour just can pardon him decades after the fact. These people have no shame -- or whatchamacall Christian humility. I'd say "shame on them," but that is nowhere enough....

The Times has it (albeit buried... and it's by way of the good ol' AP...):

Miss. Gov. Denies Pardon for Black Veteran

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: May 4, 2006

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Gov. Haley Barbour won't grant a posthumous pardon to a black Korean War veteran who was wrongfully convicted in segregationist Mississippi after he tried to enroll in an all-white university.

Clyde Kennard was convicted of purchasing $25 worth of chicken feed he knew to be stolen in 1960 and sentenced to seven years in prison, but the only witness against him has recanted his testimony. Kennard died in 1963, after being released early because he had intestinal cancer.

Barbour agrees Kennard was wronged but says he won't grant a pardon, despite calls for him to clear the man's name.

''The governor hasn't pardoned anyone, whether they be alive or deceased,'' Barbour spokesman Pete Smith said Thursday. ''The governor seems to think Kennard's rights would have been restored prior to him being governor, if he was still alive.''

More here (as if that's not enough).

What's so conservativ about these immoral neo-fascists?