Convicted Killer's Sentence Commuted

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour has
commuted a convicted killer's sentence after 19 years in prison,
drawing outrage from the victim's family.
The governor this week commuted 54-year-old Michael David
Graham's sentence for murdering Adrienne Klasky Graham. Graham has
been in prison since 1989 and has been a trusty at the governor's
mansion for the last eight years.
The victim's niece, Nancy Northern, said family members
testified against release three times before the state parole
board.
A spokesman for the governor has declined comment. The prison
agency says Graham's commutation can be revoked if he doesn't meet
parole terms.
Graham shot his ex-wife at close range with a shotgun as she sat
in her car at a traffic signal in Pascagoula in 1989. The couple
had been divorced for three years and she claimed he was stalking
her and threatening her regularly.

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