Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves is no fan of granting clemency to inmates, having gone almost six years in office without doing it once.
He broke that string, to his credit, in December with back-to-back commutations of the sentences of brothers Marcus and Maurice Taylor.
The brothers had been mistakenly sentenced to longer prison terms on drug charges than the statutes allowed. Both received 15-year sentences when the maximum for their crime was five years.
