Pardon

A pardon is a government decision to allow a person to be relieved of some or all of the legal consequences resulting from a criminal conviction. A pardon may be granted before or after conviction for the crime, depending on the laws of the jurisdiction.Pardons can be granted in many countries when individuals are deemed to have demonstrated that they have "paid their debt to society", or are otherwise considered to be deserving of them. Pardons are sometimes offered to persons who were either wrongfully convicted or who claim that they were wrongfully convicted. In some jurisdictions of some nations, …

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DPA: Drug Policy Alliance · 17 April 2024

Additionally, your administration can and should take immediate executive action - even while marijuana remains in Schedule I of the CSA - to lessen the harms of marijuana criminalization, such as expanding pardons Pardons for simple possession cases are a good first step but as Vice President Harris recently said at the March 15, 2024 Roundtable Conversation about Marijuana Reform, “there still is much more to do

while marijuana remains in Schedule I of the CSA - to lessen the harms of marijuana criminalization, such as expanding pardons Pardons for simple possession cases are a good first step but as Vice President Harris recently said at the March 15, 2024


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 4 April 2024 English

Public health advocates warn that the rapid growth of legal markets for electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) may generate a “gateway” to marijuana and harder drug consumption, particularly among teenagers. …

physical and psychological dependence” (Congressional Research Service, 2024).15 Further, in 2022 and 2023, President Biden pardoned


Amnesty International · 3 April 2024 English

This research briefing documents the horrifying surge in executions in Iran in 2023, the highest in eight years. More than half of the executions were for drug-related offences amid a …

that his execution had been halted and that a pardon from the Supreme Leader was going be applied to


Yoorrook Justice Commission · 1 April 2024 English

20 But the development of the settlement, the conquest, whatever words you choose, of Victoria, came very specifically in a particular period and that was the period from the mid-1830s …

mosaic of small, independent nations. 15 MS MCLEOD: Pardon me, Professor. I've just noticed the time. The


TSP: Sentencing Project · 27 March 2024 English

In this election year, as the United States confronts questions about the stability of its democracy and the fairness of its elections, particularly within marginalized communities, the impact of voting …

then subtracted all known rights to people who had completed their sentences. restorations of civil rights (including full pardons over 1,068,000. 8 Alabama reported 3,861 restorations in 2020 and 2021; the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency reported 0 pardons granted for fiscal years 2020, 2021, and 2022; Delaware reported 589 pardons and commutations for 2020, 2021, and through


FPRI: Foreign Policy Research Institute · 26 March 2024 English

Consider the following pieces of a puzzle. Russia’s war against Ukraine has revealed stories about the heroic resistance efforts of Ukrainian women: from a

number of male convicts to serve in its ranks for a pardon and a financial reward—a large number of these is not clear whether these women were offered a pardon or other privileges for agreeing to join the armed


Amnesty International · 26 March 2024 English

Reacting to the news that Georgia’s ruling party has proposed a discriminatory constitutional bill that, among other restrictions, bans any public expression of opinion or public gatherings that could be …

expression and association Georgia: Repressive ‘foreign agents’ bill withdrawn after protesters brutally dispersed Georgia: Pardoning


Amnesty International · 25 March 2024 English

Amnesty International, in its ten-point Human Rights Charter, urges the newly elected Government of Pakistan to prioritize and commit to the following recommendations to uphold human rights in the country. …

number of executions scheduled or carried out, death sentences imposed, people on death row, death sentences commuted, pardons


Amnesty International · 21 March 2024 Spanish

The Board of Pardons and Paroles denied clemency on 19 March, and final appeals to the courts were dismissed.


Amnesty International · 21 March 2024 French

The Board of Pardons and Paroles denied clemency on 19 March, and final appeals to the courts were dismissed.


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