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Posted: 11:23 PM Dec 17, 2007
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Former Governor Ernie Fletcher pardoned 89 people in all last week before leaving office.

Among those were convicted killers and others facing sentences for manslaughter.

In hopes of being pardoned or sentences commuted, inmates wrote letters to former Governor Fletcher.

This included a letter from Harrison Yonts, the son of lawmaker Brent Yonts.

Harrison was convicted of killing a Murray State student in a hit-and-run accident two years ago.

"Representative Yonts and I are good friends. Of course I thought that a son like that who made a bad, bad decision and is now starting to come back to life again in the prison should be considered then, so he can come out and be a taxpaying, good citizen of the state of Kentucky," said Senator Dick Roeding, (R) District 11

Fletcher reduced Yonts' sentence from 20 years to eight years, and the possibility that he'll be eligible for parole after serving 18 months.

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