Haley Barbour praised by NAACP for sisters' release
One organ donation expert said Barbour was wrong. "This is clearly a violation of federal law, which prohibits the exchange of 'valuable consideration' in return for an organ," Dr. Michael Shapiro, chairman of the ethics committee for the United Network for Organ Sharing, said in a statement.
Shapiro said commutation of a prison sentence would "clearly" fall into the category of "valuable consideration" under the law.
Barbour said the Mississippi Parole Board has accepted his advice that the Scott sisters "should be granted an indefinite suspension of sentence, which is tantamount to parole."
Barbour caught flak last week for telling The Weekly Standard that while growing up during the 1960s in Yazoo City, Miss., as many Southern cities were torn apart over race relations, that he didn't "remember it being that bad." In the same magazine profile, he also endorsed the actions of the white Citizens Council in his hometown for the way it dealt with the Ku Klux Klan.
He eventually issued a statement clarifying his remarks, saying the Citizens Council was "totally indefensible, as is segregation."
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Shapiro said commutation of a prison sentence would "clearly" fall into the category of "valuable consideration" under the law.
Barbour said the Mississippi Parole Board has accepted his advice that the Scott sisters "should be granted an indefinite suspension of sentence, which is tantamount to parole."
Barbour caught flak last week for telling The Weekly Standard that while growing up during the 1960s in Yazoo City, Miss., as many Southern cities were torn apart over race relations, that he didn't "remember it being that bad." In the same magazine profile, he also endorsed the actions of the white Citizens Council in his hometown for the way it dealt with the Ku Klux Klan.
He eventually issued a statement clarifying his remarks, saying the Citizens Council was "totally indefensible, as is segregation."
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