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In early July, former President Donald J. Trump received a somewhat unlikely visitor at his golf club and estate in Bedminster, N.J.: Michael Harris, the founder of Death Row Records, who had been imprisoned for drug trafficking and attempted murder, came to meet privately with the man who had pardoned him. Mr. Harris was connected […]
Nigeria’s outgoing president, Muhammadu Buhari, has a major opportunity to redeem his legacy before his term concludes on May 29, and the Biden administration has good reason to play a role. After winning two landslide victories and serving as president for eight years, Buhari is leaving office with the country in disarray and with few […]
“Legitimizing” Murder of Protesters Last week, on April 7, a jury found Daniel Perry guilty of murder. But less than 24 hours after this guilty verdict was announced, the Christian-fascist governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, announced his intention to pardon Perry. He did this despite the facts that he hadn’t attended the trial or reviewed a […]
(CNN) Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he is working to pardon an army sergeant who was convicted Friday of killing a protester at a Black Lives Matter rally in 2020. Daniel Perry, a White army sergeant and rideshare driver, was indicted with murder in 2021 for the fatal shooting of Garrett Foster, who is also […]
April 8 (Reuters) – Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on Saturday he is seeking the pardon of an Uber driver convicted of murder just a day earlier in the July 2020 shooting death of a man at a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Austin, the state capital. Abbott, in a post on Twitter, said […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Joe James, a Black man, was asleep under a tree when he was grabbed, beaten and then arrested for the murder of a white man in Springfield, Illinois. Before he was put on trial and later executed, a white mob seeking vengeance for the crime James was accused of committing took […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Joe James, a Black man, was asleep under a tree when he was grabbed, beaten and then arrested for the murder of a white man in Springfield, Illinois. Before he was put on trial and later executed, a white mob seeking vengeance for the crime James was accused of committing took […]
President Biden offered pardons Thursday to thousands of people convicted of simple marijuana possession under federal law, as U.S. states and other governments around the world reconsider their approach toward the drug, with some moving to decriminalize or legalize it.
Placeholder while article actions load Philip Allen Lacovara has served as counsel to the Watergate special prosecutor, deputy U.S. solicitor general and president of the D.C. Bar. In September 1974, I abruptly resigned as . . .
Calls for a legal pardon for the thousands of people persecuted as witches in post-Reformation Scotland are growing, as the drive for posthumous justice gains international notice. Last week, Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, issued a formal apology on International Women . . .