I guess with him being so caught up in the illegal phone jamming scandal he just doesn't have enough time to figure out that the man was innocent. Haley is a real credit to the new south, isn't he? What a guy.
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.
Barry Bradford Â? whose students at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Ill., have pored over thousands of documents in the case in hopes of clearing Kennard's name Â? said Barbour may become the first governor in U.S. history to refuse to pardon a man he has publicly proclaimed as innocent.
