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Federalist president John Adams pardoned, commuted or rescinded the convictions of 20 people. [3] Among them are: David Bradford, for his role in the Whiskey Rebellion; John Fries, for his role in Fries's Rebellion; convicted of treason due to opposition to a tax; Fries and others were pardoned, and a general amnesty was issued for everyone involved in 1800.
President Gerald R. Ford's broad federal pardon of former president Richard M. Nixon in 1974 for "all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974" is a notable example of a fixed-period federal pardon that came ...
List of people pardoned by George W. Bush; List of people pardoned by Bill Clinton; Bill Clinton pardon controversy; List of people granted executive clemency by Barack Obama; List of people granted executive clemency by Donald Trump
Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton issued approximately 450 pardons and commutations between 1993 and 2001 (176 were issued on his final day in office). These included a pardon to his half-brother, Roger ...
For 125 years, the key adviser to the president on clemency has been the Department of Justice's Office of the Pardon Attorney (OPA) which normally reviews all requests for pardons. [1] Trump often bypassed the OPA, and, unlike previous presidents, made the majority of his grants to executive clemency to "well-connected offenders who had not ...
President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 others in "the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history," the White House announced Thursday.
The pardon list includes Americans from all around the country with a variety of stories. Stevoni Wells Doyle , 47, of Santaquin, Utah, pleaded guilty to non-violent offenses at age 24.
The President of the United States has the authority to grant clemency and pardons to people convicted of criminal offenses, usually in the form of a commuted sentence. Also see: Category:Recipients of American presidential pardons. The difference between clemency and pardons is that a pardon means erasure of the crime the person was convicted ...