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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Biden pardon list: See full release of 39 people pardoned by president. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement. Holiday Shopping Guides.
Malcolm Hartzog’s life sentence had already been commuted to 30 years in prison by President Barack Obama in 2016, in what at the time was a record-setting use of clemency power.
Before Thursday, Biden had issued 122 commutations and 21 other pardons, mainly for people with nonviolent drug offenses. (During his first term, Donald Trump granted clemency to 237 people ...
On October 6, 2022, Biden pardoned all those convicted of what was previously the federal offense of simple possession of marijuana, totaling 6,500, via Proclamation 10467. [89] This excluded non-U.S. citizens and those who were considered illegal immigrants at the time of their arrest. [90] [91] On December 30, 2022, Biden issued 6 pardons. [92]
President Biden commuted 1,500 jail sentences and pardoned 39 others on Thursday in the largest single-day act of clemency in modern American history, according to the White House.
By the end of his second and final term on January 20, 2017, United States President Barack Obama had exercised his constitutional power to grant the executive clemency—that is, "pardon, commutation of sentence, remission of fine or restitution, and reprieve" [1] —to 1,927 individuals convicted of federal crimes.
US President Joe Biden has issued presidential pardons to 39 Americans convicted of non-violent crimes, and commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 others, including several convicted of multi ...
Many of these defendants would receive lower sentences if they were tried under today's laws, policies and practices, Biden said. The 39 pardoned individuals were all convicted of "non-violent ...