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California Governor Gavin Newsom’s 2025 pardons, including for people convicted of drug felonies and veterans, illustrate how executive clemency can publicly recognize post-conviction rehabilitation and community contributions.
has issued multiple over his tenure that, according to official press releases, comprise dozens of pardons, commutations and reprieves, but the public record needed to produce a definitive, consolidat...
’s cumulative pardons since taking office in January 2019 vary across news reports because outlets update totals after each ; contemporaneous reporting shows a steady climb from about 140 pardons in l...
law requires that any clemency—pardon or commutation—granted to a person with two or more felony convictions first receive recommendations from and the concurrence of . In practice under , those insti...
’s clemency announcements over multiple years include commutations for a number of offenders convicted of — in some high-profile batches that specifically named inmates convicted of murder, attempted ...