During Clemency Project 85033, there were more than 36,000 applicants for clemency.
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Josie Ledezma was sentenced to life for conspiracy to transport cocaine and applied for clemency through Clemency Project 2014.
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Meade first applied for clemency to be able to vote in 2006, before Charlie Crist streamlined the clemency process.
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And it tops off another presidential record: With 2000,22 people granted some form of clemency, Obama has used his clemency powers more than any president since Harry Truman (excluding Gerald Ford's clemency for thousands of Vietnam War draft dodgers).
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The DOJ is just one step in the clemency process; Obama still has to act on the petitions the agency recommends for clemency.
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Obama has shown he is committed to reinvigorating the clemency process through his administration's groundbreaking initiative to prioritize clemency applications for individuals like Corey.
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Canadian officials will now be focused on "how and when to undertake clemency intervention, and not whether clemency intervention should be undertaken," said the statement.
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President Obama's criminal justice legacy: more clemency, but more deportations President Obama's criminal justice legacy: more clemency, but more deportations This segment originally aired Jan.
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Povah, who was initially sentenced to 24 years and four months for conspiracy, received clemency in 2000 and has been advocating for women's clemency ever since.
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Because if you give clemency to the corrupt Democratic governor who tried to get rich off selling Obama's Senate seat, who won't you give clemency to?
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"(Trump) is a law-and-order president and many of the people seeking clemency were incarcerated under law-and-order presidents," said Cynthia Roseberry of the Clemency Project.
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"(Trump) is a law and order president and many of the people seeking clemency were incarcerated under law and order presidents," said Cynthia Roseberry with the Clemency Project.
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George W. Bush commuted the sentences of 11 individuals, Bill Clinton granted clemency to 61 and George H.W. Bush granted clemency to three people, the White House said.
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"We know he will be spending a lot of time reviewing clemency cases and signing clemency documents," Terry Sullivan of the White House Transition Project told NBC News.
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FAMM was a founding member of Clemency Project 2014, the massive pro bono legal effort that helped identify prisoners who met President Obama's clemency criteria and find them lawyers.
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Two board members voted to grant clemency, two voted to deny clemency and the others voted to make Brown, 30, eligible for parole after serving 25 years, she said.
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One victim's family supports clemency, helps Williams meet granddaughter While Boren's widow plans to attend the execution, the family of another victim is pressing for clemency, Williams' attorneys said Thursday.
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Obama grants clemency to 231 individuals, largest single day act Trump's position: It's not exactly clear what Trump's position on clemency is, but his pick for attorney general, Alabama Sen.
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Brown was granted clemency in January and will remain on parole for 10 yearsIn May 2018, the Tennessee Board of Parole announced it would hold a clemency hearing for Brown.
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He also said he wished that press coverage focused more on how the Manning clemency suggested WikiLeaks should not face charges than on his offer to exchange clemency for extradition.
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A step further, Booker vowed to offer clemency to more than 17,000 people incarcerated due to nonviolent drug offenses — the broadest act of clemency, if enacted, since the Civil War.
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Clemency is a constitutional power that the president can exercise on his own whim, whether there is a timely clemency application and a thumbs-up from the Pardon Attorney or not.
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Cyntoia Brown, who was granted clemency earlier this year for killing a man who had allegedly solicited her for sex as a teen, also tweeted out the petition for Reed's clemency.
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" He added, "This is a case that deserved clemency.
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Families of inmates are begging Obama for clemency before Trump takes over Families of inmates are begging Obama for clemency before Trump takes over Families of inmates with pending clemency petitions gathered for a candlelight vigil outside the White House on Monday night to urge President Obama to grant more clemencies before he leaves office.
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President Obama just set a record for most prisoners granted clemency in a single day President Obama just set a record for most prisoners granted clemency in a single day President Obama on Monday granted the petitions for clemency of 231 federal prison inmates, and one of those inmates was 44-year-old Michael Holmes.
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Based on data from the Justice Department, this means he's used his clemency powers more than any president since Harry Truman (excluding Gerald Ford's clemency for thousands of Vietnam War draft dodgers).
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Obama, who repeatedly denounced long sentencing for nonviolent drug offenders and granted clemency more times than any of the previous 10 presidents, granted her clemency in 85033 after 23 years in prison.
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Long ago, presidents wielded clemency power directly, Ms. Love said, but that changed at the end of the Civil War when President Lincoln delegated review of clemency requests to his attorney general.
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And it brushed off appeals for clemency from Western governments.
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She recently advocated for Cyntoia Brown's clemency on social media.
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She was granted clemency by former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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Mark Warner urging him to grant the Norfolk Four clemency.
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President Obama's aggressive use of clemency power is stirring controversy.
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And then the President decides whether clemency should be granted.
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Some of Trump's prior clemency grants fit the same pattern.
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Suhl's clemency request was strongly supported by former Arkansas Gov.
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Trump granted her clemency following the meeting with Kardashian West.
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Trump signed executive grants of clemency Thursday for Army Maj.
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Greg Abbott, who has not granted clemency in 19 executions.
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Early on in his research, Valdez came across presidential clemency.
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About 10,19963 applications for clemency sit with the Justice Department.
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His lawyers had petitioned the governor for clemency in 2016.
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Kay Ivey has denied clemency for Woods, according to al.com.
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What message can we take from Mr. Trump's executive clemency?
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Why it matters: Brown was granted clemency by former Gov.
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President Trump has his own unusual approach to granting clemency.
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He has the power to pardon and to grant clemency.
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The outgoing Kentucky governor's clemency decisions have caused widespread outrage.
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Trump's latest acts of clemency largely follow the same pattern.
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Trump himself will also personally benefit from the clemency spree.
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Mr. Felts was the lone member to vote against clemency.
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The remedy for an unpopular clemency decision comes from Congress.
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But none have addressed the issue through a clemency proposal.
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He's the only inmate to have rejected clemency from Obama.
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She helped Manning to petition the White House for clemency.
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In May 2017, Brown had a clemency hearing, but the board was split on their decision with two voting for clemency, two against it, and two to make her eligible for parole after 25 years.
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"Today's acts of clemency — and the mercy he has shown his 1,324 clemency recipients — exemplify his belief that America is a nation of second chances," White House counsel Neil Eggleston wrote in a blog post.
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Mr. Haslam, who is considering more clemency appeals before his term ends this week, bridged both sides when he announced Ms. Brown's clemency, under which she will be released in August after serving 15 years.
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In this episode, The Impact looks back on President Ford's clemency plan through the lives of two men: one who fought in Vietnam and served on the Clemency Board, and one who evaded the draft.
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Chelsea Manning is on Obama's short list for his final acts of clemency Chelsea Manning is on Obama's short list for his final acts of clemency There is a glimmer of hope for Chelsea Manning.
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She fell to her knees, bursting into tears, pleading for clemency.
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On Tuesday, Brown was granted clemency by Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam.
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And Obama's clemency actions only captured a fraction of federal inmates.
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After her meeting with President Donald Trump, Johnson was granted clemency.
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Assange praised the clemency decision through his attorney at the time.
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Other presidential candidates have mentioned the president's clemency powers, like Sen.
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After the hearing, Hakey thanked the mosque leadership, who urged clemency.
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The vast majority of people who appealed for clemency were denied.
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No clemency is likely to be offered by the new government.
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In July he was released—a rare act of clemency on
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Obama's more aggressive use of clemency is part of that shift.
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NBC had previously reported that Manning was on Obama's clemency shortlist.
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Jones has not commented on why he refused the clemency offer.
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Singapore does not disclose publicly information about clemency petitions and decisions.
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This contrasts sharply with the process of giving clemency to humans.
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With this grant, this President's use of clemency is becoming clear.
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Trump granted clemency to Johnson just days after meeting with Kardashian.
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The clemency initiative identifies federal prisoners deserving of an early release.
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Two additional states require fine and fee payment for clemency eligibility.
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Iowa and Kentucky require fine and fee payment for clemency eligibility.
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Revealing these truths meant more to me then being granted clemency.
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An earlier version of this editorial misattributed a quotation about clemency.
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Manning, who is transgender, officially asked Obama for clemency in November.
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The authors granted clemency to death row prisoners in their states.
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It added that Mr. McCarthan could ask President Trump for clemency.
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Ali could go to the gallows any time, without such clemency.
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Mr. Trump has been notably conservative about using his clemency power.
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He has not yet granted any clemency petitions, The Tennessean reported.
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Here's a full list of those who received clemency on Tuesday.
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President Donald Trump granted executive clemency Tuesday to former Illinois Gov.
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Lorance, Golsteyn and Gallagher recently received clemency from President Donald Trump.
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Illinois is the latest state to offer clemency for marijuana convictions.
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The grants of clemency for 1st Lt. Clint Lorance and Maj.
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In granting her clemency, Tennessee's governor showed compassion, and political courage.
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Blagojevich was one of several individuals who received clemency on Tuesday.
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In September 2011, he appealed directly to Mr. Obama for clemency.
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"No matter where the Senate or House goes, clemency is a great area for a president to use for criminal justice reform," Rachel Barkow, a New York University law professor and expert on clemency, told me.
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Norman Reimer is the executive director of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, which, together with Clemency Project 2014, has worked on nearly half of all the cases that have been granted clemency under Obama.
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Mr. Booker's executive order would also direct the Executive Clemency Panel to look for more options for granting clemency, including a "special presumption for release" for those who are older than 50 and have served extended sentences.
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WikiLeaks acknowledged the clemency on Twitter, but did not comment on Assange.
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Bush granted Libby clemency from a prison sentence before he left office.
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"I feel that the Clemency Project was a good idea," he said.
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At the beginning of 2017, 13,568 petitions for clemency were still pending.
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A website was set up seeking Gray's clemency ahead of his execution.
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He still has the right to seek clemency from President Mamnoon Hussain.
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And Illinois is the latest state to offer clemency for marijuana convictions.
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Upon his exit, Schwarzenegger ordered all clemency files sealed for 25 years.
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Well, Obama granted Manning clemency just before leaving office on January 20th.
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Manning was granted clemency, but Assange immediately went back on his promise.
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Jeff Sessions, has been a vocal opponent of clemency for drug offenders.
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The request for clemency was first reported by The New York Times.
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This, then, should be the take-away from President Obama's clemency efforts.
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The Hammonds are the eighth and ninth individuals granted clemency by Trump.
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He granted clemency to more people than any president since Harry Truman.
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Haslam granted Brown clemency in January, during his last month of governorship.
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Trump has floated the possibility of granting clemency to former Illinois Gov.
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Clemency petitions typically take months for the Justice Department to sort through.
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In September, Crystal's name appeared on the list of people denied clemency.
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They have no chance at one act of clemency, let alone two.
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After 212 years of challenging her verdict, she was eventually granted clemency.
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Clemency alone won't solve all the problems of the criminal justice system.
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He should be commended for using his clemency power in that case.
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Their goal was to raise the issue of clemency for Ms. Johnson.
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Most recently, that second track produced clemency for eight people on Feb.
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The government offered clemency and legal status in exchange for his cooperation.
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The announcement of the clemency hearing was first reported by The Tennessean.
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He maintained the payments and loans were unrelated to his clemency intervention.
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The writer is director of the Michigan Women's Justice and Clemency Project.
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The writer is director of the Michigan Women's Justice and Clemency Project.
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He was granted clemency in June and freed after serving five years.
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Unfortunately, Cuomo's actions on clemency haven't come close to matching his words.
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Her clemency petition is one of 11,355 pending with the Justice Department.
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By placing the clemency power solely in the hands of the executive, both the federal and state constitutions recognize that clemency is meant to be a thing of the gut and soul rather than of rules and process.
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On Monday, at 30, she was granted clemency by the governor of Tennessee.
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And in total, the Obama administration formally denied at least 16,000 clemency petitions.
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Republican Governor John Kasich rejected a clemency request from Otte on Sept. 1.
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A White House official told CNN this is Obama's final batch of clemency.
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It's likely a life-saving grant of clemency, given Manning's history in custody.
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Obama announced the most ambitious clemency program in 40 years in April, 2014.
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Assange had called for Chelsea Manning to receive clemency and be released immediately.
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Shell actually made an appeal for clemency, but sadly this was not heard.
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Clinton and Bush were both relatively stingy on clemency compared to their predecessors.
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The hope is this would significantly speed up and balance the clemency process.
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Of the 2500 clemency grants Obama issued on Thursday, 34 shortened life sentences.
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Mr Trump did not just show clemency to "Sheriff Joe", an authoritarian showman.
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Previously, Assange promised to leave the embassy if Chelsea Manning was granted clemency.
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The Obama administration was flooded by petitions for clemency after the 2014 announcement.
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Her lawyers also plan to file a petition for clemency with Tennessee Gov.
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The floodgates have opened thanks to a string of high-profile clemency decisions .
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Brown's attorneys have stated their intention to file a clemency petition before Christmas.
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Since Cromartie maintains his innocence, he refuses to ask the state for clemency.
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Bill Haslam (R) granted clemency to Cyntoia Brown in a nationally watched case.
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Florida Governor Rick Scott turned the state's clemency system into a hopeless slog.
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The Constitution grants the president sweeping powers to pardon people or grant clemency.
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Former President Obama granted her clemency seven years into her 35-year sentence.
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Eggleston said the president will make more clemency grants before he leaves office.
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My daughter started a petition to Obama asking him to grant me clemency.
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The Arkansas Parole Board recommended that the governor deny Williams's request for clemency.
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Fults's clemency denial was made public less than five hours after arguments Monday.
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Trump also granted Sholom Rubashkin, an Iowa kosher meatpacking executive, clemency last December.
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Presidents, too, have the power to grant clemency to people in federal prisons.
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Bill Haslam had heard from both sides on whether to grant her clemency.
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Once they completed their sentences, their cases would be automatically submitted for clemency.
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Another argument for a greater use of clemency is the troubled parole system.
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The board also has the authority to issue a stay or deny clemency.
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Others are worth noting, as they challenge traditional understandings of the clemency power.
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The Justice Department says it will review all clemency petitions received before Sept.
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But prosecutors are the wrong people for the task of vetting clemency cases.
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Obama was more likely to use clemency, as he did for Chelsea Manning.
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Public opinion, however, is unlikely to view his alleged crime with such clemency.
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Sanders hopes to make it easier for individuals to navigate the clemency process.
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Some called for the governor's clemency powers to be subjected to additional oversight.
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His wife, Patti, also regularly appeared on Fox News to argue for clemency.
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He has admitted guilt and said repeatedly that he did not want clemency.
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Trump has ruled on only 204 clemency requests — 24 approvals and 180 denials.
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Trump pardoned both men last month by granting clemency to both their cases.
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He also bypassed the traditional Justice Department protocols for issuing pardons and clemency.
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Freeland said on Tuesday that Ottawa had formally applied for clemency for Schellenberg.
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Three other inmates were given stays, and a fourth was recommended for clemency.
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Trump's constitutional power to unilaterally grant clemency was on display this week, as the president announced a forthcoming pardon for conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza, as well as potential clemency for celebrity lifestyle guru Martha Stewart and disgraced former Illinois Gov.
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The organization #cut50, which is dedicated to reforming the criminal justice system and reducing the U.S. prison population, said the inmates who applied for clemency never would have thought to do so before the administration announced its clemency initiative in 2014.
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The six-member parole board who presided over Ms. Brown's clemency hearing last May was divided, with two recommending that her sentence be commuted to time served, two recommending parole after 25 years and two recommending no clemency at all.
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But they gave clemency only to those whose crimes had not led to deaths.
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" He also went on to thank "all who campaigned for clemency on Manning's behalf.
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Trump's statement about his decision to grant them clemency is silent on that point.
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Cyntoia Brown has been granted clemency by Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam, reports the Tennessean.
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Truman granted clemency to 2,044 people, and former President Franklin D. Roosevelt to 3,796.
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The Thursday actions are the last batch of clemency approvals that Obama will grant.
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The majority of pardons and other grants of presidential clemency don't typically make headlines.
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Johnson was granted clemency by Trump weeks after his meeting with the reality star.
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Clemency Project 2014 said it does not comment publicly on the individuals it represents.
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The White House told CNN that it does not comment on specific clemency requests.
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The state's clemency process has undergone a series of changes over the last decade.
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Recently, I went to visit Corey in prison to discuss his pending clemency petition.
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The parole board heard arguments Thursday for and against Van Hook&aposs clemency request.
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Crime novelist John Grisham also wrote then-Virginia Governor Tim Kaine asking for clemency.
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With clemency reform, Klobuchar is trying to show that she's changed with the times.
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To restore their rights, felons must go before the state's clemency board for approval.
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A clemency panel could be set up entirely by Booker or any other president.
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The White House referred questions about Madoff's bid for clemency to the Justice Department.
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The Georgia pardons and parole board denied Fults' petition for clemency late on Monday.
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Georgia's State Board of Pardons and Paroles denied Lawler's request for clemency on Tuesday.
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Louisiana has a new governor who might be more inclined to grant him clemency.
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On Wednesday, Georgia's State Board of Pardons and Paroles denied Conner's request for clemency.
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In May, Brown appeared before the Tennessee Board of Parole for a clemency hearing.
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Fourth, attention is paid to making sure they thrive after their grant of clemency.
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The parole board has not commented on its decision to deny the clemency request.
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He then granted clemency to a black grandmother sentenced to die in federal prison.
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The denials mark the first decisions on such clemency requests since Trump took office.
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And he's proposed granting clemency to thousands of people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses.
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Oklahoma state officials and members of Congress also urged the president to grant clemency.
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Obama was on his way to granting the most clemency requests in 60 years.
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She has attended three clemency hearings since 2007, including one scheduled for this month.
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Charlie Crist enacted clemency reforms that automatically restored voting rights to non-violent offenders.
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" Haphazard process .... "Trump's pardon of D'Souza was his sixth act of clemency as president.
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Now is the time for Obama to use the clemency power, and with muscle.
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"Clemency is the characteristic of monarchs," wrote Montesquieu, who thought it inappropriate in republics.
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In this way, mercy tempered justice, to justify importing kingly clemency into the republic.
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But it wasn't Pelosi or Dershowitz who convinced Trump to give clemency to Rubashkin.
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This week, Trump said he is considering granting clemency to Illinois' former Democratic Gov.
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For the normally opaque field of federal clemency, that press release displayed remarkable transparency.
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Bill Haslam granted clemency to Brown-Long, and Kardashian publicly thanked him on Twitter.
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Trump eventually said he would grant Gallagher clemency and ensure his rank be restored.
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His administration would also create a clemency board independent of the Department of Justice.
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We're covering President Trump's clemency decisions and China's encouraging numbers in the coronavirus outbreak.
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Though Manning received clemency from Obama, she got her sentence commuted, not a pardon.
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"The way we misuse clemency the most is by not using it," he added.
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For Your Consideration: Director- Chinonye Chukwu (CLEMENCY), Greta Gerwig (LITTLE WOMEN),Mati Diop (ATLANTICS)
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She was among 113 people who received various forms of clemency from Mr. Cuomo.
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His argument to stay hinges on the governor's forgiveness of the crime through clemency.
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Arizona's senior senator appears to have forgotten Obama's record-breaking 1,927 acts of clemency.
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The courts have usually given the president a lot of leeway on clemency questions.
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Manning's lawyers filed the petition for clemency to the president's office in mid-November.
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A pardon and a commutation are two different types of clemency, Ms. Nirider said.
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After he appealed to Brown for clemency, the governor ordered a review in 2015.
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The question now is whether Nizami will attempt to seek clemency from the president.
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"I am thankful to President Obama for the clemency I received," he wrote VICE.
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Chelsea Manning has gained significant support in her plea to President Obama for clemency.
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Such a bold use of executive clemency would be justifiable as a matter of fairness.
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There are, however, precedents that past White Houses have followed in choosing applicants for clemency.
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Kilpatrick would remain in prison until at least 2037 if Trump denies his clemency request.
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He was recently at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival to promote his upcoming film Clemency.
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"Frankly, it saddens me that it's necessary," said Cynthia Roseberry, director of Clemency Project 2014.
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Obama's clemency, the true size of Facebook's bet on VR and Theranos in trouble again.
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But on Tuesday, President Barack Obama granted Tyler clemency along with 110 other federal inmates.
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But it can release him from prison when he has a clemency hearing next month.
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Christeson was also denied a clemency request by Missouri Governor Eric Greitens on Tuesday evening.
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Mike Parson turned down a clemency request, said his press office, without providing additional detail.
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Her seven-year sentence was reduced to three by a partial clemency and general amnesty.
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He said his staff was examining some 3,000 cases of people who might deserve clemency.
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They are given the option to seek presidential clemency and a Supreme Court judicial review.
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A clemency advisory board could be set up entirely by Klobuchar or any other president.
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Madoff filed a clemency petition that is currently "pending," according to the Justice Department's website.
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Assange suggested that Obama only granted Manning clemency to make Assange look like a liar.
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Cory Booker, focus on aspects of the justice system like clemency reform and mass incarceration.
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Osler is a former federal prosecutor, who advocates for more humane sentencing and clemency policies.
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Ms. Hamilton was sentenced in 2015, too late to receive President Obama's consideration for clemency.
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The Trump administration is considering dozens more clemency cases, White House sources said on Wednesday.
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The state Supreme Court said McAuliffe had overstepped his clemency powers through his sweeping order.
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The article further states that most of these granted clemency were low level drug offenders.
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At this stage, the heart of the problem with the clemency process comes into view.
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Greg Abbott that the state should grant clemency and test the evidence Reed was presenting.
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He has not yet issued a clemency, as Obama did for people like Chelsea Manning.
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The latest bout of clemency brings the total number of commutations under Obama to 944.
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White House officials said the new grants of clemency underscored Mr. Obama's commitment to redress.
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More than 111,000 signatures have been submitted on an online petition demanding clemency for Maknun.
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The clemency power is one where Trump can click his fingers and get instant gratification.
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The director Rudy Valdez, who is also her brother, worked on appeals and clemency petitions.
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For decades, the process worked smoothly, and hundreds of clemency grants were issued each year.
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To be sure, the president's clemency power can be a valuable tool for redressing injustice.
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Charlie Crist, at the time a Republican, brokered an agreement to streamline the clemency process.
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Applicants would have notice of the evidence necessary to successfully support a petition for clemency.
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Trump publicly hinted he would use his clemency powers for Blagojevich, a Democrat, in August.
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Eddie DeBartolo Jr. Trump granted clemency to former San Francisco 49ers team owner Eddie DeBartolo.
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Flynn is not the only ex-Trump aide hoping for clemency from their former boss.
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The White House is now seeking to create a regular review process for clemency review.
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Up to now, the president has reviewed clemency requests on a case-by-case basis.
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Advisers said there is little rhyme or reason to how Mr. Trump chooses clemency recipients.
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Here's some context for Mr. Trump's clemency and how people are making sense of it.
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Hugh Rodham, an attorney, took $400,000 to pursue clemency for two individuals who received it.
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The conservative group Judicial Watch sought the full set of clemency files in August 2006.
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Tennessee Governor Bill Lee said he would not intervene or grant Sutton's request for clemency.
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Even so, some human rights advocates expressed disappointment at the Italian president's clemency for her.
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Overall, the courts have protected a broad, wide-ranging clemency power for the chief executive.
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That left Mr. Obama with one option: to use his clemency power case by case.
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"The governor's decision to grant clemency on this was so one-sided," Mr. Keenan said.
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"Under state law, they're supposed to have 30 days each to prepare their clemency applications and a meaningful opportunity to present witnesses and a meaningful opportunity for the board of wardens to consider the clemency applications before making a recommendation to the government," Dunham said.
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Woman granted clemency by Trump moved to tears Alice Marie Johnson, a former prisoner who was granted clemency by Trump last year, was moved to tears as the president highlighted her story as an example of the need to reform the criminal justice system.
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On Monday, Obama issued 231 total acts of clemency, a US record for any single day.
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He also testified before the parole board last month in a rare follow-up clemency hearing.
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John Kasich&aposs decision to deny clemency ahead of the inmate&aposs July 18 scheduled execution.
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Despite his clemency splurge, Mr Obama has been mostly regarded as rather harsh on whistle-blowers.
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This latest round brings the total number of prisoners granted clemency by Obama up to 673.
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Kim joined other activists in pushing Trump to grant her clemency, which he did last year.
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"The White House called me to advise to help change the system of clemency," she says.
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John Kasich, who has spared some inmates while rejecting clemency for others, has the final say.
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As one former pardon attorney put it, the prosecutors are "determinedly and irreconcilably hostile" to clemency.
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There is no record of a clemency petition from Peter Madoff on the Justice Department's website.
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Chelsea Manning wrote her first letter since clemency yesterday, after Obama commuted her sentence in January.
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The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals denied them relief, and only one received a clemency recommendation.
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Cardona also filed a clemency application with New York in April, according to the Daily News.
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The White House had telegraphed the possibility of clemency for Manning in the past few days.
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The White House is expected to announce another round of clemency grants on Thursday, officials said.
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Civil society groups and protesters this week gathered in central Dakar to demand clemency for Diop.
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A federal inmate in Texas has declined President Obama's offer for clemency, USA Today reported Friday.
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"The White House called me to advise to help change the system of clemency," she said.
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On Friday, the UAE confirmed it was considering a request for clemency from the Hedges family.
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Less than one week before Obama's announcement, even Snowden asked for Manning's clemency before his own.
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His lawyers last week filed an application for clemency in hopes it will halt the execution.
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Last week, Young's request for clemency was rejected by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles.
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Bill Haslam, who can choose to grant Brown clemency before his term ends on January 19.
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His legal has team filed for clemency, and last week Kim Kardashian West urged Wisconsin Gov.
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What would it look like if governors pursued a more aggressive approach to their clemency powers?
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Bill Haslam denied him clemency and the US Supreme Court rejected his request for a stay.
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She turned into a model prisoner and mentor, and that's why she ultimately got Trump's clemency.
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Nothing in the American government system compares to the clemency power held by presidents and governors.
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Beginning in the 1980s, the use of clemency plunged at both the state and federal level.
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Trump granted clemency to Michael Tedesco, who was convicted in 1990 of drug trafficking and fraud.
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With 180,000 federal inmates, and hundreds of thousands branded with federal convictions, we need presidential clemency.
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The Three Strikes Project had offered to expand the program to help the President's clemency recipients.
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Obama granted 693,715 people clemency during his time in office, more than any president in history.
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Kilpatrick also wrote that he is praying to receive a pardon or clemency from the president.
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He now has seven days to request clemency to the convening officer, according to the Marines.
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President Obama, conversely, has commuted 403,176 prison sentences, one of the largest uses of executive clemency.
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In November, President Obama "granted clemency to 72 more federal inmates," according to the Washington Post.
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Both an Indonesian woman and a man from Pakistan have reportedly asked for clemency, Reuters reported.
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Clemency has often been granted throughout presidential terms, not solely at the end of those terms.
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On the conscientious use of clemency, history does not draw a line between conservatives and liberals.
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Donald Trump's use of executive clemency may be lawful, but it is in no way normal.
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In light of these facts, Mr. Behenna is entirely deserving of this Grant of Executive Clemency.
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Jerry Brown to follow their lead and grant clemency to the prisoners on California's death row.
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He applied for clemency from the New York governor's office in 2016 and is still waiting.
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The clemency process must be completely independent of the system employed to incarcerate millions of people.
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But no past president has been as transparently transactional in doling out clemency than Trump. Friend?
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Clemency loop Trump's political benefactors, like Sheldon Adelson and Robert Kraft, asked for the Milken pardon.
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It was one of 11 acts of executive clemency doled out by the President on Tuesday.
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This is only fair, given the thousands of applications for clemency processed by that office annually.
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Convicted felons in Kentucky previously had to seek clemency from the governor on an individual basis.
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Prior to Trump's decision, House Republicans from Illinois had cautioned him not to grant Blagojevich clemency.
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He's bucked the military brass by granting clemency to troops accused or convicted of war crimes.
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"The clemency power is the traditional last resort," said Margaret Love, a former federal pardon attorney.
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In 2016, the Tennessee Board of Parole unanimously decided not to recommend that McKinney receive clemency.
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John Kasich, a Republican who set the execution date, previously denied Mr. Phillips's bid for clemency.
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This isn't the first time that Trump has used executive clemency to advance his personal goals.
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Six of the eight inmates applied for clemency after Mr. Hutchinson announced the executions in February.
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Clemency is important in part because the legal process for exoneration is so cumbersome and slow.
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She was sentenced to 35 years in prison but granted clemency by President Obama in 2016.
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But he received clemency for the guilty charge that stemmed from him posing with the corpse.
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Kim Kardashian at White House for clemency review session CNN's Betsy Klein contributed to this report.
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President Obama has granted an unprecedented number of commutations since his clemency initiative began in 2014.
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Trump granted clemency to several high-profile convicts — including Rod Blagojevich, Michael Milken and Bernard Kerik.
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He served 26 years of a 35-year prison sentence before President Obama granted him clemency.
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It's for this reason I have a petition before the governor of Illinois for executive clemency.
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She oversaw the Justice Department work on the Obama administration's clemency initiative and pushed for criminal justice reform Yates worked closely with the previous administration's clemency initiative, in which President Obama ended up commuting the sentences of more than 1,700 nonviolent drug offenders who met certain criteria.
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Bill Clinton's last-minute spree of executive clemency in 2001 erased his half-brother Roger Clinton's cocaine-distribution conviction, spared fugitive hedge-fund manager Marc Rich from tax-evasion charges, and pardoned two men who paid Hillary Clinton's brother $400,000 to represent them in seeking clemency.
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She has worked with 40 of the 76 women who received clemency from Obama—staying in constant contact with them and their families, telling their stories to media, and teaming up with other clemency recipients to create the CAN-DO Guardian Angel Program that connects clemency applicants with supporters on the outside who can help collect letters of support, file paperwork, follow up with the Office of the Pardon Attorney and bring public attention to their stories.
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Shortly afterward, the Illinois Republican congressional delegation wrote a letter to the president imploring him against clemency.
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Kardashian West has said that Johnson would lead a productive life outside of prison if granted clemency.
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Dasch and another saboteur received life sentences but were later granted clemency by Harry Truman and deported.
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One more quick news story here that the media probably hates to cover, the president granted clemency.
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President Jimmy Carter grants Cordero clemency in 1977 and commutes all four of their sentences in 1979.
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Governor Newsom also announced a process that would allow anyone convicted under the laws to seek clemency.
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A White House release citing the support offered said that Behenna is "entirely deserving" of the clemency.
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We are extremely grateful and hope the President continues to use his clemency power to save lives.
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Dassey's attorney Laura Nirider announced Wednesday his defense had filed a petition for clemency with Wisconsin Gov.
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Everyone interested in encouraging Haslam to grant Brown clemency can call his office at (615) 741-2001.
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Bill Haslam to grant her clemency, Ivanka can and should use her influence to highlight Brown's plight.
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"Clemency is a way that the president can signal to prosecutors where she is at," Osler said.
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Clemency reform wouldn't totally end long prison sentences written into law, including mandatory minimums for drug offenses.
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On a national level, the Clemmons case was viewed as a blow to the practice of clemency.
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UPDATE: Oregon ranchers Dwight Hammond Jr and son Steven will seek clemency from President Obama, attorney announces.
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Abacha ignored pleas for clemency for the men from world leaders including then US President Bill Clinton.
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Scott, who sits on the executive clemency board, only roughly 2,400 clemencies had been issued since 2011.
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The White House did not return a request for comment asking what prompted these latest clemency actions.
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Typically an office at the Justice Department reviews clemency applications and gives a recommendation to the President.
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The best outcome would be a thorough and worthwhile revising of how the process of clemency works.
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Bill Haslam, a Republican, who will make a final decision on whether to grant clemency, McDonald said.
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Dassey has been in prison for 13 years and his legal team recently filed for his clemency.
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Her Warden, Case Manager, and Vocational Training Instructor have all written letters in support of her clemency.
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As of this point, Governor Haslam has granted clemency in 10 cases and other grants are forthcoming.
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The decision came alongside Brown's Christmas Eve clemency acts, where he granted 143 pardons and 85033 commutations.
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WikiLeaks has long argued Manning and Snowden deserve clemency for leaking sensitive national intelligence to the public.
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Solid-blue states aren't the only ones where governors have made bold use of their clemency powers.
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But Brown's clemency spree has left the state's death row at San Quentin State Prison largely untouched.
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Bill Haslam granted Brown clemency, after Kim Kardashian West, Rihanna, and other celebrities lobbied for her release.
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Dassey's legal team issued a plea for clemency on Wednesday, featuring a hand-written letter from Dassey.
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Trump signed an executive order to grant clemency to US Army 1st Lt. Clint Lorance and Maj.
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Reality TV star Kim Kardashian West met with Trump last week to advocate for clemency for Johnson.
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But under President Obama's clemency program for drug offenders, Jones could have gotten out in August 2018.
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Some of the prisoners opted out of petitioning for clemency, knowing the board usually issues a denial.
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The Texas parole board has only made four clemency recommendations since 1982, according to the Associated Press.
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Officials elected by Floridians, not judges, have the authority to determine Florida's clemency process for convicted felons.
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And Obama granted clemency to more federal convicts — mainly drug offenders — than any president since Harry Truman.
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And Mr. Kaine presided over 11 executions as governor, delaying some but granting clemency only once. Mrs.
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A pardon for Ali would mark the second deceased boxer to be granted executive clemency under Trump.
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Trump's predecessor granted clemency to over 1,900 people, including issuing 212 pardons, according to Pew Research Center.
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The Ohio Parole Board said in October that it did not support Mr. Campbell's request for clemency.
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That was the backdrop when Mr. Rivers went before the state's Clemency and Pardons Board in 2013.
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Numerous inmates before him had their clemency appeals denied, but the board members approved Mr. Rivers's request.
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Under Booker's plan, more than 11,000 people serving time for marijuana offenses would be eligible for clemency.
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His lawyers say testimony about his years in C.I.A. custody could strengthen a post-sentencing clemency petition.
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The big question: In granting ZTE clemency, what will the White House get in return from Beijing?
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BRANTLEY You mean like, "But this is not the end of me / 'Cause this beast is clemency"?
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These lawyers say that if Trump and Kushner truly cared about clemency, they would've kept the program.
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Kerik's pardon was part of a list of 11 new clemency grants issued by Trump on Tuesday.
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Darin LaHood and Mike Bost, directly appealed to Trump not to use his clemency powers for Blagojevich.
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Here are the individuals who received clemency: Rod Blagojevich Trump commuted the sentence of former Illinois Gov.
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I encourage President Obama to exercise his constitutional pardoning power and grant clemency to Oscar López-Rivera.
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Presidents can exercise clemency at any point in their terms, or not — it's entirely up to them.
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Lowell Sutton, who knew Sutton as a child and was Dorothy Sutton's nephew, says also supports clemency.
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The recipients of clemency had been convicted on charges ranging from defrauding the federal government to theft.
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After receiving presidential clemency, Edward Gallagher has left the SEALs to become a pitchman and conservative activist.
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Matt Golsteyn, and US Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher, who all recently received clemency from President Donald Trump.
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The clemency actions were the largest number by a governor in the state's history, a spokesman said.
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Earlier this week, Reed's attorneys filed an application for clemency as they attempt to block his execution.
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Members can hold hearings, subpoena documents, call witnesses, and otherwise raise the profile of the clemency decision.
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Our system grants the president enormous power to seek justice, including clemency for people such as Josephine.
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On Wednesday, Georgia's pardons and paroles board denied a final request for clemency made on his behalf.
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Members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government have called for clemency, saying the soldier did nothing wrong.
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Yesterday families delivered more than 2 million signatures to the Department of Justice in support of clemency.
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The move has bought Trump a little more time before he needs to make any clemency moves.
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When Warner went before the clemency board three years later, he explained that he voted for Scott.
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The decision was portrayed as an act of clemency, but it set off angry protests throughout Peru.
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"The Department of Justice and the president will consider individual clemency applications on their merits," Earnest explained.
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"President Obama, by granting clemency to Manning, slapped all those who serve honorably in the face," Graham said.
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And most recently, local activists hosted a rally in Nashville on January 5, calling for clemency for Brown.
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In April 2014, Deputy Attorney General James Cole unveiled a new set of standards for "prioritizing" clemency petitions.
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Clemency In his final week as president, Obama commuted the bulk of Chelsea Manning's sentence and pardoned Gen.
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In recent months, a campaign aimed at getting clemency for Brown focused squarely on Haslam, Tennessee's outgoing governor.
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Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told reporters on Tuesday evening that Nizami did not opt to seek presidential clemency.
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There are some parts of Biden's plan he could do on his own as president — most notably, clemency.
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One of its founders, CNN commentator Van Jones, praised Kardashian West for convincing Trump to give Johnson clemency.
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"He felt it, he was compassionate," Kardashian West told CNN's Van Jones after Trump granted clemency to Johnson.
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Arpaio also did not petition the Justice Department, which can make recommendations to the president on clemency requests.
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The clemency board, comprised of the governor and three cabinet members, heard requests just four times a year.
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But Jones, 43, who has filed a clemency petition and is hoping to be pardoned by Illinois Gov.
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The White House said Behenna was a "model prisoner" and "entirely deserving" of the Grant of Executive Clemency.
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Kasich, the Republican governor, earlier rejected clemency for Campbell, who has said he was abused as a child.
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Presidents typically scale up their use of pardon and clemency powers in the final months of their administrations.
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If he touches down in the wrong federal joint and that clemency doesn't transpire, there'll be crazy drama.
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She spent seven years in a military prison before President Barack Obama granted her clemency in early 2017.
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The 221th US Circuit Court of Appeals denied the appeal, and only one inmate received a clemency recommendation.
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With all the political risks attached to it, clemency was already a tool used rarely by state executives.
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"While each clemency recipient's story is unique, the common thread of rehabilitation underlies all of them," he said.
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Her efforts to obtain clemency gained wide attention, particularly as other participants in the Brink's robbery were released.
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But the issue never arose, as his successor, Gerald Ford, granted him clemency before any action was taken.
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Under the past presidencies, some political activists, whose incarcerations stem from their activism, have been granted executive clemency.
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Shell actually made an appeal for clemency (in the Ogoni Nine case), but sadly this was not heard.
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That's relevant because Kim Kardashian West saw the Mic video and became an advocate for clemency for Johnson.
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According to Farragut, Blagojevich also filed clemency paperwork in November 2016 while President Barack Obama was in office.
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In a clemency hearing in May, the Tennessee Board of Parole was split on its recommendation to Gov.
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In Tennessee, clemency decisions rest solely with the governor, though the state's Board of Parole can make recommendations.
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He had long sought to bring Johnson's case to Trump's attention and lobbied for the act of clemency.
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Ralph Northam, his successor, has continued the clemency program on a rolling basis as prisoners return to society.
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MORE each denied hundreds of clemency requests before issuing their first commutations and pardons, according to USA Today.
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That's what he did to Alice Johnson after public lobbying by Kim Kardashian, granting Johnson clemency in June.
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But clemency is usually not about bipartisanship; it's about rewarding or possibly gaining a valuable base of voters.
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These unfortunate souls have no chance at even a single act of clemency, much less an unprecedented two.
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Yet with more than 10,000 clemency applications still waiting for resolution, Mr. Obama has issued only 248 commutations.
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Seven Iranians under indictment or imprisoned in the U.S. were granted clemency as part of a prisoner swap.
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If Trump does pardon Ali, it would be his second act of clemency for a deceased professional boxer.
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In a post on Medium earlier this year, Manning explained the errors in her initial request for clemency.
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But the clemency process following the initial wait period has proven to contain even more roadblocks in practice.
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Barr supported President George H.W. Bush's granting clemency to former officials caught up in the Iran-Contra scandal.
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Nominated for best feature this year are A Hidden Life, Clemency, The Farewell, Marriage Story and Uncut Gems.
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Last week, Reed's attorneys filed an application for clemency as they try to stop his November 20 execution.
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President Carter freed the other three in 20103, though they had never sought clemency, considering themselves political prisoners.
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The traditional clemency process, as a pardon attorney described in her 2016 resignation letter, remained sidelined and backlogged.
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The act of clemency in the final moment's of Obama's presidency sparked an ongoing outcry for Manning's release.
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He launched the clemency program in 2014, inviting thousands of drug offenders and others to seek early release.
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"We have asked for clemency, we will wait to see what happens," Hedges' wife Daniela Tejada, told Reuters.
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But an appeal may help Mr. Schellenberg extend the process while the Canadian government seeks to secure clemency.
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Bill Haslam, published by NewsChannel5, arguing that she should not be given clemency, saying her motive was robbery.
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But as befits an incident destined to become a patriotic legend, their bravery was rewarded with clemency instead.
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By the way, Kim's latest mission -- to get clemency for Chris Young -- is a special one for Sharp.
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For his part in the "mutiny," Hopkins was sentenced to death, but he talked his way to clemency.
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Florida law allowed former felons, on an individual basis, to petition for clemency so that they could vote.
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But in a legal system that errs far too often on the side of harshness, clemency is vital.
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Here are the 22008 people who benefited from the executive grants of clemency that Mr. Trump signed Tuesday.
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Mr. Trump may well dismantle a lot of Mr. Obama's legacy, but he can't touch grants of clemency.
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He was at the center of a high-profile war crime case and was granted clemency on Friday.
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Clemency petitions undergo no fewer than seven levels of review, four of them within the Department of Justice.
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That would allow an independent but thorough review of clemency petitions free from the influence of career prosecutors.
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In an appeal for clemency, Mr. Sutton's lawyers depicted his transformation over more than 35 years in prison.
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President Trump granted clemency to 2500 people convicted of white-collar crimes, including those involved in major scandals.
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However, he was ultimately spared on that conviction after Trump granted clemency in November and restored Gallagher's rank.
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Some clemency-related records from the Clinton Library were accidentally forwarded to the investigating House committee in 2001.
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In all, Trump granted some form of executive clemency to 353 individuals Tuesday, according to the White House.
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Earlier this week, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee said he would not intervene or grant Sutton's request for clemency.
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One of the conditions for accepting the clemency then was that the militants renounce the use of violence.
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When asked about clemency, President Andrew Johnson said that there hadn't been enough women hanged in this war.
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She served more than 24 years in federal prison before receiving clemency from President Barack Obama in 2016.
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Don Beyer (D-Va.) said the president's move was not in keeping with the spirit of presidential clemency.
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Clemency won the Dramatic Competition Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2019, and it's easy to see why.
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For many of America's prisoners, applying for presidential clemency has seemed a little like buying a lottery ticket.
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Felons have been disenfranchised in Florida since 1868, although they can seek clemency to restore their voting rights.
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Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey on Thursday announced a plan to offer clemency to more than 17,000 inmates serving time for nonviolent drug-related offenses on the first day of his presidency, an expansive use of executive power that would be the broadest clemency initiative since the Civil War.
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Manning, according to a White House statement, is one of 273 prisoners to whom the president granted clemency Tuesday.
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Great grandmother literally now experiencing freedom for the first time in over 27 years, granted clemency by President Trump.
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Trump granted Johnson clemency after he met with reality TV star Kim Kardashian West, who advocated on Johnson's behalf.
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"We are extremely grateful and hope the President continues to use his clemency power to save lives," she said.
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An important part of the conversation: The clemency decision has sparked a complicated discussion about the Kardashians and privilege.
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He is in two festival-prize-winning movies ("Clemency" and "Burning Cane") and an Amazon television series ("Jack Ryan").
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His attorney, Laura Nirider, announced Wednesday she has filed a petition for clemency to the state's governor, Tony Evers.
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Today, clemency applications have to get through seven steps, and they largely work through the US Department of Justice.
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Previous recipients of Obama's clemency grants describe an almost surreal feeling upon realizing their lengthy sentences have been shortened.
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President, if you grant only one act of clemency as you exit the White House, please: free Chelsea Manning.
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The White House said Tuesday that more than one-third of Obama's clemency recipients had been serving life sentences.
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President-elect Donald Trump has not said how he will treat pending petitions for clemency when he takes office.
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Osler and Barkow, who have worked together for years on clemency, argue this is the right way to go.
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Executive clemency is a critical check on a justice system that can impose wantonly excessive punishments without good reason.
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And just like a president can unilaterally set up a clemency panel, a future president could unilaterally dismantle it.
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Smart and her legal team are petitioning the New Hampshire governor to grant her clemency or a sentence reduction.
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A brief filed Wednesday on Lee's behalf by a new legal team argued for clemency and requested DNA testing.
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Requests for clemency tend to go through an office set up for that purpose in the Department of Justice.
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His supporters have called for clemency given Hutchins' more recent and concerted efforts to protect users from security threats.
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While a formal petition is not legally required, Obama has typically only considered clemency for those who have applied.
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Following the presidential election last month, Bergdahl's attorney's submitted clemency applications to both the White House and Justice Department.
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The White House says the president is using his clemency authority to help people who deserve a second chance.
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The deadline for Ramirez to file a clemency petition—January 12—came and went without Gross taking any action.
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Clemency is particularly important because it will be impossible to defend Snowden's leaks as a public service in court.
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With Snowden's push for clemency, the president has a chance to complicate that legacy and begin to undo it.
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Although receiving clemency is incredible, legislative reform is critical because it will impact far greater numbers of deserving people.
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Trump has pardoned five people thus far, and is considering dozens more clemency cases, White House sources have said.
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This removes a powerful weapon from Trump's arsenal, who could obstruct justice by promising clemency in exchange for silence.
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"He is committed to using his clemency power in ways not seen in the modern era," Mr. Eggleston said.
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As 537 death row inmates were executed there over the last 40 years, only two inmates were granted clemency.
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They have trudged to clemency hearings over the years, crying and pleading for Arkansas to carry out the execution.
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Prior to the clemency, she would not have been eligible for parole until 2055 at the age of 67.
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The effort against Manafort is being driven by the prospect of clemency as opposed to the actual underlying crimes.
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Manning requested clemency after her conviction in 2013, but was denied by the army in the spring of 2014.
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Walker wrote in his ruling that the clemency hearing gives "partisan officials" an "extraordinary authority" without guidelines or standards.
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To bolster the case for the pardon, the White House emphasized the list of people who had supported clemency.
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Six former governors call on California's governor to follow in their footsteps and grant clemency to death row prisoners.
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Beyond that, Obama also granted clemency to more federal convicts — mainly drug offenders — than any president since Harry Truman.
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He could use his powers, including the clemency power, to make a real dent in the federal prison population.
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Mr. Haslam, a Republican, is in his final year in office and has not yet granted any clemency petitions.
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Mr. Trump has controversially pardoned some white-collar criminals, including Michael Milken, and might extend clemency to Roger Stone.
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"We hope at Christmas our minister will make a great gesture" and grant clemency to the family, he said.
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America magazine reports that every pontiff since St. John XXIII has called for clemency for people condemned to death.
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If Manafort is convicted in that case, Trump could not offer him clemency, as it is a state case.
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"I want the case laid out in the clemency statement — It's wrong and we should say so," Clinton wrote.
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Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, is taking a leading role in the new clemency initiative.
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What Happened: President Trump announced clemency for 11 people, including former Illinois governor and Celebrity Apprentice contestant Rod Blagojevich.
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Tony Evers' recent move to grant clemency to someone else who was convicted of selling ecstasy at age 17.
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They have to apply to the governor for clemency, but they can only do that after a waiting period.
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The pardons, rather than showing clemency, reveal a president looking for high-profile actions which will bolster his base.
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While this week's clemency grants are encouraging, their impact needs to be assessed in the context of mass incarceration.
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But a deputy mayor, Henry H. Curran, came to Tammany's rescue, writing a letter pleading for the cat's clemency.
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At the time, the suggestion he might grant Blagojevich clemency drew swift reproach from Illinois' entire House Republican delegation.
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In December, supporters including Alyssa Milano, Ashley Judd and Amy Schumer urged him to grant clemency to Ms. Brown.
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" Though the text makes an exception to felon disenfranchisement in the event of a governor's restoration, the plaintiffs argue, "From Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson to Tim Kaine and Bob McDonnell, every Governor of Virginia has understood the clemency power to authorize the Governor to grant clemency on an individualized basis only.
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I pray that I will receive the opportunity for Pardon/Clemency from the President of the United States as well.
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We got Pam Wednesday in NYC as reports surfaced that the Prez was prepping to grant clemency to several prisoners.
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The president has used his unilateral authority to issue pardons and clemency in an unusual fashion for a modern president.
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"The President set out to reinvigorate clemency, and he has done just that," White House Counsel Neil Eggleston said Thursday.
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"It was like just a different story," Geiger told the board June 14 in a rare follow-up clemency hearing.
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Whoever commits an offense against women and children in Austria does not deserve clemency but proper, hard punishment, he said.
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"We hope the UAE now looks favourably on the family's request for clemency," a spokeswoman for Britain's Foreign Office said.
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Since appellate judges and the US Supreme Court rejected her appeals, Johnson needed clemency from the president to be discharged.
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She has exhausted all appeal options, so she would need to be granted clemency by the president to be released.
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A third man, Jason McGehee, slated to die on April 27th, won a stay after the parole board recommended clemency.
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"Chief Gallagher faces a draconian punishment that does not fit the conduct," Mr. Parlatore wrote in a request for clemency.
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Last year, he filed a petition for clemency with the Justice Department, seeking to have President Trump commute his sentence.
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"We hope the UAE now looks favourably on the family's request for clemency," a spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said.
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Obama has now granted clemency to 211 individuals, the vast majority of whom were serving time for nonviolent drug crimes.
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In May, Kim Kardashian met with Trump on on behalf of Johnson, and successfully convinced him to grant her clemency.
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But during the clemency hearing, a Nashville police detective said the crime scene and his investigation told a different story.
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The Ohio Parole Board has begun hearing arguments for and against clemency for a condemned killer facing execution in July.
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" He added, "While clemency doesn't directly affect, for example, statutes, it is important signaling to how prosecutors use their discretion.
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Last year he granted clemency to Alice Marie Johnson, a grandmother imprisoned for life in Alabama for nonviolent drug offenses.
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Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) outlined a similar clemency reform plan earlier this year as part of her own presidential bid.
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Previous presidents have used their pardon and clemency powers in various ways, from helping political allies to enabling systemic reforms.
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"If Obama grants Manning clemency, Assange will agree to US prison in exchange -- despite its clear unlawfulness," the group said.
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Congress had, effectively, tried to reverse that by having "forbidden" the courts from using the clemency grant in that way.
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"In light of these facts, Mr. Black is entirely deserving of this Grant of Executive Clemency," the White House said.
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Mr. President, if you grant only one act of clemency as you exit the White House, please: free Chelsea Manning.
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There are many compelling individual stories like Mr. Ray's to come out of the president's extraordinary number of clemency grants.
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Arnold Ray Jones applied for the president's clemency program for low-level drug offenders and was accepted on Aug. 3.
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Robert Bentley (R) on Thursday also refused to grant clemency after Smith's lawyers requested him to intervene in the process.
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These controversies aren't necessarily disqualifying for a potential clemency recipient, but in Trump's case they seem to have been qualifications.
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Trump has pardoned five people thus far, and is considering dozens more clemency cases, White House sources said on Wednesday.
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Rivera rejected clemency from former President Bill Clinton in 1999 because it was not extended to another imprisoned FALN member.
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D'Souza's clemency would mark the fifth full pardon issued by Trump in his first year and a half in office.
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There, a person had to apply to the governor for clemency, but could do so only after a waiting period.
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It was the first time in Indiana that a pardon was granted on the basis of innocence, rather than clemency.
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Comedian Amy Schumer, reality star Kim Kardashian West and actress Ashley Judd were among those who called for Brown's clemency.
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Kardashian West joined the cause for Johnson's clemency after she watched a prison video published by the online outlet Mic.
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Decision rests with the governor Haslam's office is reviewing "a lot" of clemency cases, the term-limited governor said Monday.
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Rubashkin's clemency bid also received the support of more than 100 legal professionals, including US attorneys general and federal judges.
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"We would get a single sheet of paper from a prisoner that said, 'I would like clemency,'" Mr. David said.
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"We do not know whether the next president will support clemency efforts or criminal justice reform," they wrote to Obama.
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White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Snowden "has not submitted paperwork to seek clemency" with the Department of Justice.
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She said the clemency decisions could be sensitive and declined to flesh out her specific interactions with the Trump administration.
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Meanwhile, some of the men are filing last-minute appeals and appearing before the parole board to ask for clemency*.
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If Crystal could speak directly to the president, she would ask for clemency not for herself, but for her family.
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The clemency power is ancient, tracing its heritage to a monarch's prerogative to show a subject mercy and demonstrate grace.
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To cap off the dramatic developments in Gallagher's case, Trump granted him clemency, restoring his rank after he was demoted.
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Ultimately, the president&aposs clemency — and how those who benefited from it have handled it — erodes the institution they served.
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When Mr. Coley petitioned for clemency in 2015, Governor Brown asked the Board of Parole Hearings to conduct an investigation.
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"It's who you know now," said Weldon Angelos, whose cause for clemency has been supported by politicians, judges and celebrities.
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The administration has not made a convincing case that clemency for delinquent companies will produce better results than punishing them.
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Kay Ivey of Alabama to grant Hamm clemency and allow him to serve the rest of his life in prison.
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A discharged felon can apply individually for clemency to a board that includes the governor, but Florida's rules are restrictive.
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This is the second time that the governor has wielded clemency as a direct rebuke to Mr. Trump's immigration policies.
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Paradoxically, had he been punished, after a finding of guilt, and shown remorse, you might have reason to show clemency.
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It had been held together with hush money, fears of prison and, if all else failed, promises of presidential clemency.
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But, if Manafort is convicted in New York, Trump has no authority to grant clemency for state and local crimes.
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When the Republican Legislature blocked him in court, McAuliffe used an autopen to sign the clemency orders one by one.
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It asks the people who grant pardons and clemency to correct their colleagues, the prosecutors who put people in prison.
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Mr. Hopwood said he hoped to speak to White House officials while he prepared a clemency petition for his client.
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The clemency commission could be used to clear this backlog of the elderly or inform who deserves to be released.
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That's how Alfre Woodard's performance in "Clemency" feels as she violently sweeps you up with the force of her talent.
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With all due respect, however, I cannot fathom the plan of action for "Clemency," a new film from Chinonye Chukwu.
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In addition to the pardons and commutations above, Trump also gave clemency to a disgraced former Republican lobbyist, David Safavian.
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After the White House publicized the president's desire to use his clemency power, more than 30,000 convicts applied for relief.
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An online petition urging clemency garnered more than 100,000 supporters and was submitted to the White House late last year.
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It is a striking image: millions of Roman subjects carrying around with them the name of the goddess of clemency.
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One of the main things that I have done is a proposal for the presidential campaign, is the clemency board.
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Trump also signed executive grants of clemency to Edward DeBartolo Jr., Ariel Friedler, Paul Pogue, David Safavian, and Angela Stanton.
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He signed four executive grants of clemency and commuted the sentences for Tynice Nichole Hall, Crystal Munoz, and Judith Negron.
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In June, it was reported that Madoff filed a clemency petition, though it is unclear when the request was submitted.
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Irrespective of Mr. Trump, the American criminal justice system could benefit from more clemency, the Times columnist David Leonhardt writes.
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In a week that sees the release of two death row dramas, "Clemency" is the more minimalist of the two.
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" Specifically, he signaled in 2015 that he wanted to begin granting clemency to more prisoners "deserving of a second chance.
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Eight years later, in 273, the Florida Commission on Offender Review declined to recommend Dailey's case for a clemency hearing.
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John Kasich (R), who previously denied clemency for Campbell, will set a new execution date, the department told NBC News.
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But in a 3-2 vote, the members of the Board of Pardons and Paroles ultimately rejected the clemency bid.
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Clemency and Just Mercy, two films with Black leads about the excesses of the criminal justice system, were notably overlooked.
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According to the clemency petition, Kent Whitaker, his relatives and his wife's family do not want Texas to execute Bart.
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If Trump were to grant Johnson clemency, it would stand in sharp contrast to the rest of his drug policy.
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" That gives the president of the United States the power to pardon people convicted of federal crimes through "executive clemency.
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"We hope the UAE now looks favorably on the family's request for clemency," a spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said.
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Haslam, you have the power and ability to grant clemency to Cyntoia Brown, and so I ask when will you grant her clemency, I ask what will be your legacy as you leave office, and how will you answer to this human rights violation that the state of Tennessee is committing by keeping her incarcerated?
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This was the beginning of a second track for clemency within the Trump administration, one which favored right-wing heroes whose cases had been trumpeted by Fox News and Trump advisors like Alan DershowitzAlan Morton DershowitzTrump's three-track clemency process just might work A disgraced Senate and president have no business confirming judges Dershowitz files defamation suit against Boies, alleging extortion MORE and Rudy GiulianiRudy GiulianiRevolution forecast: When a tsunami becomes a thunderstorm Bolton book release delayed due to government review Trump's three-track clemency process just might work MORE.
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EST A lawyer for Julian Assange told The Hill that Manning's clemency did not meet the requirements for the extradition agreement.
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"We note that the clemency power could not give legal status to any undocumented individual," a White House official told BuzzFeed.
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In early May, President Trump granted clemency to Michael Behenna, a former soldier convicted of murdering an Iraqi prisoner in 2008.
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In December 21, New York Governor Hugh Carey gave sweeping clemency to the prisoners and blocked disciplinary action against law enforcement.
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An opposition coalition said the arrests over protests in the four months up to February came despite government assurances of clemency.
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In contrast, Trump has chosen to dole out clemency to those he knows personally or following personal appeals from their advocates.
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Leveraging the president's enormous clemency powers, he pardoned or commuted more than 22015,20003 federal convicts' sentences — almost entirely for drug crimes.
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President Trump's decision to grant her clemency comes after he spoke with Kim Kardashian West at the White House last week.
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Most people who are granted pardons or other types of executive clemency have already been sentenced and spent time in jail.
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About 10,000 inmates did not go through the Clemency Project and either applied directly to DOJ or through a paid attorney.
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The administration also offered clemency deals to seven Iranians in the United States, mostly imprisoned for or charged with sanctions violations.
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He's also proposed using executive action to offer clemency to thousands of nonviolent drug offenders on his first day in office.
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The board also couldn't address local and state criminal justice systems, since the president can only grant clemency for federal crimes.
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Talking Points: President Obama granted clemency for 214 federal inmates —the largest grant in a single day since at least 1900.
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After spending nearly 21 years in prison, Ramona Brant was granted clemency – and now she's sharing her story with the world.
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The panel also couldn't address local and state criminal justice systems, since the president can only grant clemency for federal crimes.
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McGehee's mental fitness wasn't a factor; instead, a clemency recommendation by the parole board based on good behavior prompted the stay.
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"If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to US extradition despite clear unconstitutionality of DoJ case," WikiLeaks tweeted last week.
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Of the inmates who have been granted clemency under Obama, White House Counsel Neil Eggleston said 342 were serving life sentences.
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There's no guarantee Trump, who called himself the "law and order candidate" during his campaign, will carry on Obama's clemency initiative.
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His sister, Raeda Fayadh, appealed to King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia to grant clemency to her brother.
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Felons have been disenfranchised in Florida since 1868, but have been able to petition for clemency to get those rights restored.
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The Colorado House of Representatives, for instance, approved a resolution last month urging the governor to grant clemency to Lima-Marin.
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He says historically, it's unusual for a president to exercise his clemency power so much during his last days in office.
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Trump granted clemency to Johnson after Kardashian West personally lobbied the president on the issue in the Oval Office last week.
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John Kasich (R) this week granted clemency to a woman serving a life sentence for killing her abusive ex-boyfriend. Cleveland.
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My daughter started a petition to Obama asking him to grant me clemency, and more than 100,000 people have signed it.
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And under President Donald Trump, Jared Kushner and others have worked to keep clemency and criminal justice reform in the foreground.
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Every president in recent history seems to have fallen prey to profligacy that allowed ideological tendencies to pervade their clemency decisions.
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Under previous law, felons in Florida were required to appeal their voting status directly to the governor through a clemency board.
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Though comparable figures for the nation's governors aren't readily available, they've reportedly shown a similar aversion to clemency since the 230s.
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He also granted clemency to 221 drug offenders, bringing the number of people whose sentences he has commuted to over 1,000.
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Since last fall, Carlos and Roby have been crisscrossing America, picking up and mentoring as many clemency recipients as they can.
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Record number Obama has granted clemency to 774 individuals, the vast majority of whom were serving time for nonviolent drug crimes.
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In the past year, Obama has granted clemency to 590 prisoners, the most commutations in any single year of US history.
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" She called for Iran to grant clemency and immediately release her, saying Zaghari-Ratcliffe had "suffered terribly over the past year.
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One man was recommended for clemency, while another two received stays of execution from the Arkansas Supreme Court earlier this week.
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Count them up: It puts Obama at more than 600 acts of clemency this week and nearly 2,000 for his presidency.
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Tony Evers in the form of a clemency petition that asks for either a pardon or commutation of his life sentence.
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A campaign aimed at getting clemency for Brown focused squarely on Haslam, who at the time was preparing to leave office.
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Its minister for foreign affairs, Chrystia Freeland, said on Tuesday that her ministry had already asked for clemency for Mr. Schellenberg.
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Even so, Kushner's actions left a bitter-sweet taste in the mouths of a number of criminal lawyers working on clemency.
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On Thursday, Johnson told Today that her release was a "miracle," noting that she had unsuccessfully applied for clemency several times.
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President Donald Trump granted clemency to Johnson a week after Kardashian West met with him in 2018 and pleaded her case.
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Background: Modern presidents have generally avoided publicly weighing in on cases involving friends or associates, though some have eventually offered clemency.
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An article on Tuesday about an application for clemency by the Air Force veteran Reality Winner referred incorrectly to the process.
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Keith's last petition for clemency had been filed toward the end of Mr. Obama's time in office and was not reviewed.
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But in this case, the Obama administration already took the political risk two years ago when it announced the clemency initiative.
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For virtually any reason, a president can grant clemency to people charged with breaking federal laws — but not for state crimes.
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On Tuesday, Trump granted clemency to prominent convicted white-collar criminals including financier Michael Milken and former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.
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There's ample evidence that the president has dangled his clemency powers as a means to keep associates from testifying against him.
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And he has backed more clemency and commutations for offenders who have taken real steps to put their past behind them.
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One could argue that it would have been better to let the military justice system take its course before considering clemency.
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The power of social media, protest, and petition created enough pressure to sway those in power to grant those women clemency.
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The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended clemency in a unanimous decision on Tuesday based largely on the father's request.
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In fact, through one of the only righteous means of executive orders, President Obama has granted clemency to several nonviolent prisoners.
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F.Y.I. Q. It was unfortunate that the Bronx deer granted clemency by the governor last year met such a sad end.
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But when it comes to the other type of executive clemency — pardons — Mr. Obama hasn't been an improvement over his predecessors.
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Runners up for word of the year were quid pro quo, impeach, crawdad, egregious, clemency, the, snitty, tergiversation, camp and exculpate.
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"If the case review does not provide justice, then she can apply for clemency to the president," Mr. Joko told reporters.
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Both "Clemency" and "Diane" are slow burns that culminate in a kind of unraveling, but these older women are not tragic.
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By then it was Blanton who was embroiled in an ethics scandal, his administration accused of exchanging cash payments for clemency.
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But Kardashian West will have a big task ahead of her: She reportedly wants to ask Trump to grant Johnson clemency.
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"I can't speculate at this point to what degree that will have on the President's consideration of clemency requests," Earnest added.
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The Pew Research Center has a wonderful chart to prove it (which excludes Gerald Ford's clemency actions for Vietnam War draft dogers since they were done through nontraditional means): As the chart shows, Obama has granted clemency to 21986,280 people, mostly nonviolent drug offenders, over eight years — a total that includes 2500,023 commutations (which shorten sentences) and 70 pardons.
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Relatives of those killed or maimed have opposed clemency for Ms. Clark, a position for which Mr. Cardozo said he had sympathy.
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And also, the president shining a light on criminal justice reform in the wake of his latest clemency grant, an amazing story.
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Reality TV icon Kim Kardashian West took up her case, even meeting with Trump at the White House to plead for clemency.
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On the heels of a last appeal to President Obama for clemency, Manning tells Broadly about her struggle for visibility and justice.
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With the backlog that we have, it may take me 15 years for me to get in front of the clemency board.
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Toward the end of his administration, President Obama attempted to roll out a new effort to expand clemency to more federal prisoners.
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But the Obama administration's executive actions, from the Smart on Crime Initiative to its clemency actions, played a significant role as well.
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In comparison, former President George W. Bush granted 200 people total clemency, and former President Bill Clinton did so for 459 people.
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With those moves, Obama's total acts of clemency -- the president's decisions to pardon or commute criminal sentences -- stood well above his predecessors.
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Reality TV icon Kim Kardashian West took up her case, even meeting with Trump at the White House to plead for clemency.
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Dassey's next move has not been announced, though he could seek clemency or find new evidence of a violation of his rights.
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The State Board of Pardons and Paroles met to consider clemency for Wilson on Wednesday but ultimately denied his request, officials said.
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"We have asked for clemency - we will wait to see what happens," Hedges' wife Daniela Tejada told Reuters after the ambassador spoke.
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Then they'd still have to wait to get a hearing before the state's clemency board, which meets just four times a year.
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Charlie Crist streamlined the process of granting clemency ahead of the 21 presidential election, making 100,000 felons eligible voters in the process.
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The Texas parole board earlier this week refused to recommend Abbott grant clemency for Castillo, who is set to die Wednesday evening.
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Just in the past year, Obama has granted clemency to 2003 prisoners -- the most commutations in any single year of US history.
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The White House reports that this act of mercy brings the President's clemency total to more than the last 10 presidents combined.
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Kim got to break the good news to Alice ahead of Trump granting her clemency -- and Alice shared her gratitude with reporters.
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Morva held dual U.S.-Hungarian citizenship, and the European Union and the Hungarian Embassy in Washington had called on McAuliffe for clemency.
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Two parole board members voted for clemency, two denied her bid, and two said she should serve a total of 25 years.
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With the clemency petition filed, Byrd began a grassroots campaign to highlight what she saw as a major injustice in Jones' sentence.
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The parole board, which can recommend to the governor that a condemned prisoner be spared, earlier this year declined to recommend clemency.
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One misconception: Presidents can only grant clemency in crimes committed against the federal government, not those in violation of a state law.
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In late 2016, it pardoned 787 convicts in response to Pope Francis' call to all heads of state for acts of clemency.
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Nizami could be hanged within months unless the Supreme Court reviews his case again, or he is granted clemency by the president.
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But the quality and record number of President Obama's clemency grants debunked the claims of mandatory sentencing supporters in a new way.
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Manning, who is transgender, asked Obama for clemency in November, citing harsh treatment in jail, which she said led to suicide attempts.
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Though the spirit of knockout football is inevitably merciless, there must be some room for clemency when it comes to the rules.
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A team of University of Chicago Law School students formed a group focused on helping convicted troops, called the Combat Clemency Project.
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Johnson admitted there were moments when she nearly lost hope, including one of the times when she lost her bid for clemency.
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The news came just a few days after WikiLeaks promised that Assange would agree to U.S. extradition if such clemency was granted.
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Nonetheless, he appeared in support of the launch of the campaign and spoke at length about the importance of the clemency decision.
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He led a historic clemency effort that freed nearly 2,000 people who had been languishing in federal prison for drug-related offenses.
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He also teased the idea of clemency for Martha Stewart, along with a potential sentence commutation for former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.
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Those arguing for clemency, which was backed by the murder victim's son, Mitesh Patel, wanted his sentence commuted to life in prison.
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The court, in a 2063-to-3 decision, disputed the governor's assertion that his clemency power was absolute under the state's Constitution.
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Those who violate our laws are essentially granted clemency if they belong to a class that is protected by our political grandees.
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When he invited NFL players to nominate candidates for his clemency, he said the White House is looking at 3,000 potential applications.
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Mr. Obama has taken an interest in the issue and has used his clemency power to free people jailed for drug crimes.
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President Obama on Monday granted clemency to 2628 federal inmates, the most in a single day by any president in U.S. history.
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Dwight Hammond Jr. and his son Steven Hammond were granted executive grants of clemency by Trump, according to a White House statement.
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Three of the convicts, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh had filed a clemency plea with the Supreme Court last year.
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A division of the Department of Justice reviews individual requests for clemency under a list of guidelines aimed at achieving certain goals.
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Taking into account good behavior, Jones could get out as soon as eight months later than the clemency would have taken effect.
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Officials said that was in part because of a lengthy review process that the administration had set up to consider clemency applications.
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The new rules no longer required a hearing or petition, and the clemency board had 30 days to review and grant approvals.
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Kardashian and Holley are continuing to communicate with Johnson, Brown and their lawyers in order to develop the best plan for clemency.
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On the heels of a final appeal to President Obama for clemency, Manning tells Broadly about her struggle for visibility and justice.
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They also say that by law, an 11th-hour appeal for clemency issued to Mr. Joko should have automatically halted his execution.
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On November 15, Trump intervened in all three cases, granting clemency to Lorance and Golsteyn and reversing a decision to demote Gallagher.
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The Office of the Pardon Attorney is a relatively neutral bureaucracy established to assist the President with the exercise of executive clemency.
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New York's own numbers are appalling, leading some lawmakers to support geriatric parole legislation and broader use of the governor's clemency power.
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To ease congestion, state officials considered drastic measures in recent years, including shipping inmates to other states and releasing others through clemency.
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Clemency Dir: Chinonye Chukwu Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams (Alfre Woodard).
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In later statements to the judge, Mr. McCord implicated senior presidential aides in bribery, threats and promises of clemency to secure silence.
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That year, eight other people were also granted clemency — seven men and one woman, all federal inmates convicted of crack cocaine offenses.
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He pardoned Dinesh D'Souza, a conservative commentator convicted of campaign finance violations, and he said he may extend clemency to former Gov.
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After appeals and pleas for clemency, Mr. Angelos was eventually released from prison in 2016 after serving a quarter of his sentence.
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The irony of the contradictory politics in the two clemency cases never struck him, at least visibly, says a White House source.
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Clemency is rare, but if Sergeant Bergdahl's voluminous public record is a guide, I believe that he could present a strong case.
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The solution should be to enlarge the clemency working group and give it the resources it needs to address that backlog systemically.
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Trump pardons President Trump granted clemency to 383 white-collar criminals yesterday in an extraordinary flex of his post-impeachment presidential power.
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Can't quite believe we're at a point where Trump highlighted criminal justice reform and clemency in his ad in the Super Bowl.
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Trump said he wanted the process to play out before deciding whether to grant Stone clemency but didn't rule it out. 23.
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Though Lionel, 43, had the more severe sentence, he was released earlier, having been granted clemency by President Barack Obama in 2017.
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First, if it comes soon, Trump would be acting relatively quickly to exercise clemency, at least, when compared to his recent contemporaries.
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In his 2013 petition for clemency, Bender said that another detective had destroyed evidence that may have vindicated Coley, the registry said.
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And so I think as president, I'll just take it out of that case, what I would do is the clemency board.
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"While Cyntoia's clemency application is still in process, we will not be making any further public comments," Mr. Bone said on Thursday.
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"The governor thoughtfully reviews any clemency application and recommendation from the Board of Parole," said Jennifer Donnals, a spokeswoman for Governor Haslam.
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The files also contain indications of the chaotic process that unfolded at the end of Clinton's presidency, as clemency applications flooded in.
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She took Johnson's case all the way to the White House, and in 2018 Johnson was granted clemency by President Donald Trump.
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Executive clemency is one way to alleviate harsh punishments, but it's always dependent on the whims of a given governor or president.
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President Barack Obama granted five pardons and one commutation in fiscal year 2012, according to clemency data compiled by the Justice Department.
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Manning, who is transgender, asked Obama for clemency in November citing harsh treatment in jail, which she said led to suicide attempts.
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His letter to the Senate simultaneously served as both the largest mass execution order and the largest clemency order in U.S. history.
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Bevin also claimed in a tweet that a "majority" people who were pardoned received clemency years after they were released from prison.
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Either way, the chatter has heightened interest in several key legal issues about the scope and limits of Mr. Trump's clemency powers.
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The president's willingness to eschew the traditional pardon process, which typically involves thorough reviews at the Justice Department, has alarmed clemency advocates.
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As Trump announced that he would exercise his clemency powers on Blagojevich's behalf, he told reporters, "I saw his wife on television."
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If that happens, Mr. Trump might step down to avoid impeachment, particularly if he were promised clemency for himself and his family.
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Many inmates have been clamoring for Obama to grant them clemency before he leaves office, believing Donald Trump will never do so.
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It encouraged lawyers to apply for a massive pro bono project, called the Clemency Project 2014, to help them with their applications.
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If it does bother you, do something about it, like donate money to a nonprofit working for cannabis- and drug-related clemency.
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The prospect of presidential clemency seemed heightened by last month's appointment to Gallagher's defense team of Marc Mukasey, one of Trump's personal lawyers.
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Now that Haslam has granted executive clemency, Brown will be released on parole supervision on August 7, 2019, after having served 15 years.
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He also awarded clemency to the conservative provocateur Dinesh D'Souza, whom the president said at the time he knew from seeing on television.
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The UAE president issued the pardon as part of a mass clemency of more than 700 prisoners to mark the country's National Day.
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She returned last fall for a listening session on clemency issues with White House officials, including the President's son-in-law Jared Kushner.
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The last recourse of the convicts, all of whom are now in their twenties, would be to seek clemency from President Pranab Mukherjee.
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Tibbetts is not deserving of clemency in part because Hicks&apos killing was "particularly senseless and gratuitous," the board said at that time.
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In 2014, a friend of Moon's named Gina Smith caught wind of the Obama administration's recently announced Clemency Initiative and offered to help.
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"My thing is, when my co-defendant got out, why didn't I get [clemency] the year after, or the year after?" he says.
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Freeland said Ottawa had formally applied for clemency for Schellenberg, as it usually does in the cases of citizens condemned to death abroad.
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Some are praising Kardashian for helping to convince the president to grant a prisoner clemency, but others say black activists deserve the credit.
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As part of the new clemency initiative, people who were arrested and charged under such laws in California can apply for a pardon.
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In January, nearly one year after applying, she was told Clemency Project 2014 could not help her and encouraged her to apply directly.
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Under Florida's current system, ex-felons have to wait up to seven years before they could petition the Clemency Board, led by Gov.
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She has maintained her account of the event throughout the years, and on Friday asked the clemency board not to pardon the men.
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As of last year, more than 10,000 people were still waiting for a hearing, according to an ongoing lawsuit challenging Florida's clemency process.
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By Thursday, he had asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution so he could challenge the legality of Florida's clemency proceedings.
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Notably, Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr., who sentenced Corey to life in prison under mandatory sentencing laws, believes that Corey also deserves clemency.
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The Ohio Parole Board is scheduled to hear arguments on Thursday for and against death row inmate Robert Van Hook&aposs clemency request.
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After all, Newsom has the powers of clemency and commutation as a remedy if he sees actual proof that someone was wrongfully convicted.
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But Scott, Bondi, Putnam, and Atwater reinstituted the lifetime voting ban for felons unless clemency is granted by the board or the governor.
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And Trump&aposs big announcement Wednesday -- that he will grant a commutation for Marie Johnson -- is sure to spur even more clemency seekers.
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Since taking office in 2011, Haslam hasn't granted any clemency petitions, though that could change as he nears the end of his term.
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"The governor thoughtfully reviews any clemency application and recommendation from the Board of Parole," a spokesman said in May, according to the Tennessean.
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" In a statement explaining his reasoning for granting clemency, Abbott said, "In just over three years as Governor, I have allowed 30 executions.
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"If Obama grants Manning clemency Assange will agree to U.S. extradition despite clear unconstitutionality of [Department of Justice] case," WikiLeaks tweeted last Thursday.
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Trump's pardon of Arpaio was his first use of presidential clemency powers, which are sweeping and don't require consultation among other administration agencies.
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But as governor of Virginia, he oversaw 11 executions and in only one case did he grant clemency on ground of mental health.
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Blagojevich is not set to be released from prison until May 2024 and can now only have his sentence reduced through executive clemency.
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She had been expected to be released in December 85033, when former President Obama granted clemency to 231 people, but was passed over.
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If we did that, the clemency process would finally be at least as functional as the one that informs a silly holiday tradition.
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Libby got clemency but no pardon from former President George W. Bush for lying to a special counsel investigating the Valerie Plame affair.
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In the past, the Office of the Pardon Attorney has assisted the White House on clemency petitions -- though it is not constitutionally required.
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"This clemency authority empowers the president to exercise leniency towards persons who have committed federal crimes," The White House explained in its response.
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The decision was made by the college of Commissioners after Spain and Portugal both pleaded for clemency in letters to the EU executive.
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They sit and wait, just like she does, for pardons or clemency or the fruition of some feminist awakening that will save them.
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One White House official told the newspaper that the denials were "routine," and that no clemency grants were expected in the near future.
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One revelation for the volunteers was how few prisoners were obvious candidates for clemency, such as people doing time for nonviolent drug offenses.
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Trump has been involved in three war crimes cases, granting clemency to three warfighters accused or convicted of murder and other war crimes.
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"Justice is overdue for Dwight and Steven Hammond, both of whom are entirely deserving of these Grants of Executive Clemency," the statement read.
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Kim Kardashian West is pushing for Brendan Dassey, who was featured on the Netflix docu-series "Making a Murderer," to be granted clemency.
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From meeting all of the people that I have met behind bars, I guarantee you, they don't care who signs that clemency paper.
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Manning already served seven years in prison before the outgoing President of the United States, Barack Obama, granted her clemency in early 2017.
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But that doesn't excuse the failure to review clemency petitions for those serving unjustly long sentences — petitions the Obama administration itself called for.
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However, Florida residents who have been convicted of murder or sexual offenses will reportedly be considered individually by the state's Clemency Review Board.
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Johnson was passed over for clemency by former President Obama, and Kardashian was expected to push Trump on Wednesday to pardon the woman.
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That effort, which relies on the Justice Department for recommendations of good clemency candidates, could fall by the wayside in a new administration.
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Trump told reporters on Friday that "there will be more pardons," before revealing his consideration of Ali as a potential candidate for clemency.
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Inside that circle, having used clemency actively and with principle, are Washington, Lincoln, Kennedy, Huckabee, Obama, and many others, stretching back to antiquity.
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The standard, procedural route to presidential clemency — a process that has become ever more impenetrable — has hardly been a portrait of justice itself.
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He said he had supported clemency petitions from 16 inmates in the past decade, 13 of whom were sentenced under the 1993 law.
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A program of one-acts — Leonard Bernstein's "Trouble in Tahiti" and James MacMillan's "Clemency" — bore only scant thematic connection to the other works.
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In 2014, President Barack Obama launched a more limited clemency initiative that encouraged certain nonviolent drug offenders serving mandatory minimum sentences to apply.
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The move could buy time while Canada seeks to secure his clemency, but comes amid a widening diplomatic rift between the two countries.
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According to its website, Ms. Johnson did not have a pending application for clemency registered with the department; a previous application was denied.
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Second, and perhaps more importantly, the clemency working group seems to be working outside of the oppressive influence of the Department of Justice.
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The governor's pardon came after Mr. Cardona applied to a clemency program that was revitalized by Mr. Cuomo over the last two years.
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Trump pardons: The U.S. president granted clemency to 11 controversial figures who had been convicted of charges that included fraud, corruption and lying.
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An article on Tuesday about pardons issued by President Obama erroneously attributed a distinction to his use of clemency during his two terms.
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While that clemency process has moved far too slowly — beset by both administrative obstacles and bureaucratic resistance — grants have been accelerating throughout 2016.
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When the Department of Justice reviews clemency cases, the opinions of prosecutors in the district of conviction are solicited and given considerable weight.
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President Bill Clinton offered Mr. Lopez Rivera and other members of the F.A.L.N. clemency in 1999, a decision that stirred an emotional debate.
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Several of Stone's allies have lobbied Trump to use his presidential powers of clemency for his longtime political adviser, the people familiar said.
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"I think there is almost this religious sense of mercy and clemency to try to bring the country back together," Professor Perry said.
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"I think there is almost this religious sense of mercy and clemency to try to bring the country back together," Professor Perry said.
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He also said that his wife had asked the judge for clemency and for a furlough to celebrate her daughter's birthday in June.
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The White House declined to comment on Monday, and the Justice Department did not immediately respond to questions on Ms. Winner's clemency application.
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"From meeting all of the people that I have met behind bars, I guarantee you, they don't care who signs that clemency paper."
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"Clemency," which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, isn't really a death row drama in the same way that "Just Mercy" is.
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Here's a doozy: How about the possibility that Mr. Trump will grant Edward J. Snowden clemency as part of a handover with Putin?
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He singled out Phillp Emmert, who was granted clemency by Bush in 2006 after serving 85033 years in prison on a methamphetamine offense.
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Tuesday's clemency grants — which included hundreds that shortened or ended outrageously long sentences for low-level drug offenders — are bold and commendable decisions.
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In the absence of legislation, Obama will surely come under pressure to use his powers of executive clemency aggressively in his final days.
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Our Founding Fathers understood this point when they gave the president the power to grant clemency, such as the one Obama granted Josephine.
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The clemency process is run out of the Justice Department, where career prosecutors have little interest in reversing the work of their colleagues.
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Many law firms joined the effort, assigning lawyers to evaluate the clemency applications and to forward deserving cases on to the White House.
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The judge pointed to the clemency application of Steven Warner, a white ex-con who cast an illegal ballot in Florida's 2010 election.
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Any clemency, Sanchez said, would be aimed toward farmers, drug couriers and other non-violent lawbreakers caught up in the trade – not assassins.
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He said he will be the most vocal advocate for the next president to expand the clemency program beyond just nonviolent drug offenders.
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And so I say Governor Haslam, you have the power and ability to grant clemency to Cyntoia Brown, and so I ask when will you grant her clemency, I ask what will be your legacy as you leave office, and how will you answer to this human rights violation that the state of Tennessee is committing by keeping her incarcerated?
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"Manning's clemency stifles howls over Obama's failure to pardon Snowden, keeping civil-liberties crowd & NSA+CIA+IC onside for war v Trump," WikiLeaks tweeted.
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One last thing ... Kim says the Prez himself had immediate compassion toward Alice, and felt granting her clemency was the right thing to do.
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" Video The statement added: "Justice is overdue for Dwight and Steven Hammond, both of whom are entirely deserving of these Grants of Executive Clemency.
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The Canadian government had been backing Smith for two decades, when Harper decided in 2007 to stop diplomatic efforts to seek clemency for him.
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Great working session today at the White House on ways to improve the clemency process with policy leaders and criminal justice reform advocates. pic.twitter.
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"I'm sorry they had to be a victim of my despair," Gray said in part in an audio recording posted on the clemency site.
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"He said, 'I don't know who you serve, but you need to start thanking them right now ... Obama just granted you clemency,'" Moon said.
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She believed she would be pardoned in 2016, when then-President Obama granted clemency to 231 people, including many with similar nonviolent drug charges.
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In December Bergdahl asked Obama to grant him a pardon from the charges, filing clemency applications to both the White House and Justice Department.
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And since appellate judges and the US Supreme Court had rejected her appeals, Johnson's last hope was clemency by the president to be discharged.
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His wife, Kim Kardashian West, has visited the White House on multiple occasions this year, influencing the administration's policy on clemency and prison reform.
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"I thought clemency was for people like me," Byrnes told Reuters through an electronic messaging system from a federal prison in Alderson, West Virginia.
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As of Thursday, he had asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution so he could challenge the legality of Florida's clemency proceedings.
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Florida is one of four states — Iowa, Virginia and Kentucky — that constitutionally prohibit ex-felons from voting, unless the governor approves a clemency plea.
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"While I will continue to review clemency applications, only Congress can bring about the lasting changes we need to federal sentencing," Obama wrote Thursday.
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And that's only a fraction of the prisoners interested in applying — the pro-bono network Clemency Project 2014 has screened 32,000 prisoners so far.
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But a court apparently disagreed, staying at least one of the eight executions because the quick timeline violated an inmate's rights to seek clemency.
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He has previously met with Kim Kardashian, West's wife, to discuss clemency and prison reform efforts and commuted Alice Johnson's sentence after Kardashian's advocacy.
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The organization promised if President Obama granted Chelsea Manning clemency that its founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange would agree to US extradition.
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White House Counsel Neil Eggleston said the commutations underscored the president's commitment to using his clemency authority to give deserving individuals a second chance.
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Robinson also said there was no proof that Brown had been trafficked since she was 12, which had come out at the clemency hearing.
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She went back to the 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for a listening session on clemency issues with several prison reform advocates and Trump administration officials.
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Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Andrew Yang, have also vowed to use the president's pardon and clemency powers to help low-level drug offenders.
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Instead, Obama has relied on his 2014 clemency initiative to advance his goal of shortening sentences for non-violent offenders he views as unjust.
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This morning, she appeared before the state parole board inside the Tennessee Women's Prison, where she's being held, to make a plea for clemency.
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"Now there is no legal bar to hang them, unless they seek clemency from the president and the president pardons them," Alam told reporters.
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I have had the good fortune of meeting grateful clemency recipients who, like Mr. Ray, are reconnecting with their families and building productive lives.
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"While I will continue to review clemency applications," Mr. Obama said, "only Congress can bring about the lasting changes we need to federal sentencing."
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Johnson had been expected to be released in December 22019, when former President Obama granted clemency to 231 people; however, she was not included.
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"If Obama grants Manning clemency, Assange will agree to US prison in exchange -- despite its clear unlawfulness," WikiLeaks said in a tweet on Thursday.
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At a clemency hearing Wednesday, the six-member Tennessee Board of Parole split on its recommendation in her case, said panel spokeswoman Melissa McDonald.
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The Florida Clemency Board on Friday granted pardons to four African-American men who were wrongly accused of raping a white woman in 1949.
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Bill Clinton commuted his sentence in 2001, one of a large number of controversial clemency orders issued in the final days of his presidency.
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The move follows a major clemency announcement on Tuesday, when the president cut short the 35-year sentence of convicted WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning.
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Young's lawyers had noted that the board had recommended clemency in a similar case earlier this year that involved a white death row inmate.
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A criminal justice advocacy site, CAN-DO, and one of Johnson's attorneys say a request for clemency was rejected by former President Barack Obama.
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His lawyers had filed legal challenges, arguing the fact their client was black played a role in the board's decision to deny him clemency.
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Corby's sentence was later cut after a request for clemency to then president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and she was released on parole in 2014.
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Now that the family's most famous member has procured presidential clemency for a 63-year-old Memphis grandmother, criminal justice reform might become fashionable.
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Two of the six member voted to grant clemency, two to deny it, and two to make her eligible for parole after 25 years.
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Meanwhile, President Donald Trump granted clemency to Alice Johnson, a grandmother who was serving a life sentence for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense.
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Trump's clemency power is sweeping — he can decide carte blanche to legally forgive or free anyone, so long as the crimes were federal ones.
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