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What is the difference between a commutation of sentence and a pardon? A commutation of sentence and pardon are different forms of executive clemency, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
A pardon is an executive order granting clemency for a conviction. It may be granted "at any time" after the commission of the crime. [17] As per Justice Department regulations, convicted persons may only apply five or more years after their sentence has been completed. [1]
Between April 2023 and April 2024, Biden granted 47 additional commutations and 11 pardons to people under home confinement or convicted of non-violent drug offenses.
President Biden announced Thursday that he is commuting sentences for roughly 1,500 people and is pardoning 39 others in what the White House called the “largest single-day act of clemency in ...
On November 22, 2024, Biden granted clemency to 3 Chinese citizens, Jin Shanlin, a former doctoral student, sentenced to over eight years in prison for possession of child pornography; Xu Yanjun, a spy for China’s Ministry of State Security serving a 20-year sentence for espionage crimes and attempting to steal trade secrets from several U.S ...
In law, a commutation is the substitution of a lesser penalty for that given after a conviction for a crime. The penalty can be lessened in severity, in duration, or both. Unlike most pardons by government and overturning by the court (a full overturning is equal to an acquittal), a commutation does not affect the status of a defendant's underlying criminal convicti
Between 2017 and 2021, Trump granted just 143 pardons and 93 sentence commutations – amounting to just 2% of the clemency applications that his administration received, according to available ...
Two of the 37 inmates on federal death row whose sentences were commuted to life without parole last month by President Biden are rejecting clemency. Shannon Agofsky, 53, and Len Davis, 60, who ...