According to ABC13, President Obama pardoned 78 people on Monday (December 19th) and shortened the sentences of 153 other federal inmates, in the largest number of clemencies in a single day by any president. Obama has been granting a large number of commutations in his final months in office, most of them shortening sentences of those […]
The White House announced Tuesday (November 22nd) that President Obama had commuted the sentences of 79 more federal inmates. He has now commuted the sentences of more than 1,000 people, topping the past 11 presidents combined, the vast majority of them convicted of non-violent drug offenses. Of that number, 839 had their sentences commuted this year. White […]
