Will Mississippi's Gov. Haley Barbour Revoke His Suspended Sentence of Murderer Michael D. Graham?

OK...a favor to ask..finally got my wife to post a question...so make her feel good, put some money on it.

Actually, it's a pretty interesting market...Barbour is one of the leaders of the Republican party, and with their stance on law and order, it's quite unusual for someone like him to suspend the sentence of a murderer...quite a major crime when it happened, and Graham really hasn't done anything to redeem himself other than work in the Governor's Mansion as a trustee the last few years...I can't figure out why Barbour suspended his sentence in the first place...being the political animal that he is, how will he react to the furor raised by his actions?

Yeah! A first question. Welcome!

Welcome aboard htlsales

Hotel Sales perhaps? Anyway, interesting question, thanks for creating it!

under American law it will not happen within the time you have set over there money takes

Apparently Barbour does have the right to change his mind, and there's been a lot of political pressure on him to do so. But he's pretty stubborn, kinda like W, and is not likely to back off even a bad decision. But, there is the possibility that he would, particularly if it looks like it might hurt the chances for the re-election of his appointed US Senator, Roger Wicker, who's in a pretty tight fight against the former Democratic Governor, Ronnie Musgrove. A bad taste from Barbour might hurt Wicker.

Also, there's always the chance that Graham might mess up (as so many ex-cons do) and get himself sent back to prison by then.

The time period was set for just a month because that's about as long as this story will probably run in the minds of Mississippi voters, pretty much like all American voters...we all need that pill for memory loss when it comes to politics...

Thanks for the welcome, everyone!

Yes, valornhonor, it was for Hotel Sales. It was the first AOL screen name and email address I had back in 1996. Only 8 letters were allowed, so a vowel or two had to go. :-)

I personally like short time periods for the bets I make, so I wanted this one to be short, as well. An option open to Barbour is to give Graham a full pardon. If he does that, it can't be revoked. I'm guessing, he probably won't do that because the state newspapers and television stations have made this a daily story, already.