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Convicted murderer David Gatlin received a full pardon from outgoing Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour.

(CNN) -- The outgoing Mississippi governor's full pardon of a convicted murderer has intensified fears that the man will try "to finish what he started," one of his surviving victims said.
"I feel like my safety is in jeopardy," Randy Walker, who was shot and wounded by convicted killer David Gatlin, said Wednesday. "I wonder if he's going to finish what he's started."
Gatlin walked into a trailer in 1993 where his estranged wife, Tammy Ellis, lived and shot her in the head as she held her 6-week-old baby in her arms. Walker, the woman's friend, survived a gunshot wound to the head. Gatlin was convicted of murder, aggravated assault and burglary of a residence.
In his last days of office, Gov. Haley Barbour pardoned Gatlin and three other men convicted of murder. Speaking in an interview with CNN's Soledad O'Brien, Walker and Tiffany Ellis Brewer, Tammy's sister, expressed concerns about the release and fears that Gatlin may intend to target them.
"I'm married and have a family again," Walker said. "I feel the safety for them is an issue. Anybody that might be with me at the time that he decides to do something would be in jeopardy."
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Brewer said the governor hasn't responded to questions about why Gatlin was pardoned.
"He will not comment on anything. We have no answers as to why he has done this. I would like to think he did not have all of the facts of the case, if he did have all the facts," she said.
"Apparently, we haven't had a really good man for our governor."

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/11/justice/mi...hpt=hp_bn1