"These are the stories that demonstrate the successes that can be achieved - by both individuals and society - in a nation of second chances. "While each clemency recipient’s story is unique, the common thread of rehabilitation underlies all of them," the White House wrote in a press release, emphasizing how people grew after their conviction, either by taking educational courses or drug treatment in prison or being pillars of their community after their sentence. Among them was Reid, the Delaware man and two-time offender whose apartment was. Obama has now pardoned 148 people President. Obama, who has now given clemency to a total of 1,324 people, stressed the importance of rehabilitation. Of those, three pardons covered gun crimes and 104 people with gun convictions have had their sentences commuted. 'By the time I leave office, the number of pardons that we grant will be roughly in line with what other Presidents have done,' Obama said in August. the People's Republic of China, and that made his contact with Liu a risk. The president's pardons Monday brought his grand clemency total to a whopping 1,324 while in office - more than the four preceding presidents combined and the most of any president since Harry S. I concluded that I would rather be caught by the police with defensive weapons than to be caught by the Klan without them." (He had been beaten up for registering black voters in Mississippi before.) In his most controversial final-day pardon, Clinton pardoned billionare fugitive Marc Rich after his ex-wife, Denise Rich, lavishly donated to Democrats. This affair had apparently come to the FBI's attention as early 1967 because. He served eight months in jail for the felony of taking a firearm across state lines.Īlthough Sala admits to having the gun, he explained in a plea for a pardon, "At that point, although I was previously committed to nonviolence, I concluded that if I was trapped on some lonely, dark road in the South and confronted by Klansmen who threatened to kill me, I would be prepared to defend my life. Police found an unloaded gun (and bottle of moonshine) in the car. Bill Clinton issued 396 pardons, Ronald Reagan 393, and the all-time record goes to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who issued 2,819 pardons during his 12 years in office.
Others were seen as controversial due to the nature of the original crime, such as the pardon of Blackwater contractor Nicholas Slatten, convicted to life in prison by the Justice Department for his role in the killing of 17 Iraqi civilians, including several women and 2 children.On Friday, Yahoo reported that Obama pardoned civil rights activist Sala Udin, who was arrested for speeding when he was driving around protestors in Kentucky in the 1960's. Some have seen this as President Trump nullifying the results of the investigation into his 2016 campaign and subsequently laying the groundwork for future presidential campaigns to ignore laws, safe in the knowledge that all sentences will be commuted if anyone involved is caught. (It is important to note, however, that the post’s comparison of the two presidents’ records isn’t apples-to-apples, as the figures cover Obama’s two terms of office and the first roughly three years of Trump’s. Those clemencies include 25 pardons and 10 commutations, according to DOJ clemency statistics. Some of these pardons have been controversial due to the connections to President Trump himself, such as the pardons of longtime ally Roger Stone and former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. What roles did the animosity between Obama and Netanyahu play in Obama's decision and its timing Considering the clemency shown by pardons and commutations. Meanwhile, Trump has granted clemency to 35 individuals to date. Recent pardons that President Trump has given out have been seen as quite controversial. The iconic black nationalist and civil rights advocate died in 1940, but his son and several black activists have been in recent weeks urging Obama to issue a posthumous pardon for Garvey’s 1923.
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