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  2. List of people pardoned or granted clemency by the president ...

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    The president can issue a reprieve, commuting a criminal sentence, lessening its severity, its duration, or both while leaving a record of the conviction in place. Additionally, the president can make a pardon conditional, or vacate a conviction while leaving parts of the sentence in place, like the payment of fines or restitution.

  3. Federal pardons in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. List of people granted executive clemency by Donald Trump

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    The president can only grant pardons for federal offenses. [9] When the president commutes a sentence, it reduces the severity of a sentence without voiding the conviction itself; for example, a commutation may reduce or eliminate a prison term, while leaving other punishments intact. [7]

  5. Biden pardons 6 convicted of murder, drug, alcohol crimes

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    President Joe Biden has pardoned six people who have served out sentences after convictions on a murder charge and drug- and alcohol-related crimes, including an 80-year-old woman convicted of ...

  6. Who did President Biden pardon? See the full list of names ...

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    Here are the 39 people who received pardons, with names, ages and locations provided in a White House press release: Nina Simona Allen , 49, of Harvest, Alabama Kelsie Lynn Becklin , 38, of Falcon ...

  7. President Biden might pardon others before leaving office ...

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    President Joe Biden pardons the National Thanksgiving Turkey Liberty during a ceremony at the White House on November 20, 2023 in Washington, D.C., with Jose Rojas, left, Vice-President of Jennie ...

  8. Pardon - Wikipedia

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    The president can grant a pardon to a person awarded death sentence; however, the governor of a state does not enjoy this power. The question is whether this power to grant a pardon is absolute or this power of pardon shall be exercised by the president on the advice of the Council of Ministers. The pardoning power of the president is not absolute.

  9. Capital punishment by the United States federal government

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    The serious crimes that warrant this punishment include treason, espionage, murder, large-scale drug trafficking, or attempted murder of a witness, juror, or court officer in certain cases. The federal government imposes and carries out a small minority of the death sentences in the U.S., with the vast majority being applied by state ...