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President Biden announced on Thursday he was granting 39 pardons to people with non-violent criminal convictions and commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500, the largest single-day act of clemency ...
In December, Biden also issued presidential pardons to 39 Americans convicted of non-violent crimes and commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 others. He also commuted the sentences of 37 federal ...
On December 12, 2024, Biden commuted the sentences of 1,499 people and pardoned another 39 convicted of non-violent offenses [107] who had been released from prison to home incarceration during the COVID-19 pandemic, in the "largest single-day grant of clemency in modern history". [108]
“The president is intent on granting clemency to individuals convicted of non-violent crimes who were sentenced under outdated laws, policies, and practices that left them with longer sentences ...
Federal pardons issued by the president apply only to federal offenses; they do not apply to state or local offenses or to private civil lawsuits. [40] Pardons for state crimes are handled by governors or a state pardon board. [1] The president's power to grant pardons explicitly does not apply "in cases of impeachment." This means that the ...
The following is a list of people pardoned by Bill Clinton. [1] [2] As president, Clinton used his power under the U.S. Constitution to grant pardons and clemency to 456 people, thus commuting the sentences of those already convicted of a crime, and obviating a trial for those not yet convicted.
Biden did recently pardon 39 people convicted of nonviolent crimes and commuted the sentence of nearly 1,500 people who were placed in home confinement, AP News reported. This was the largest ...
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.