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Clemency in capital cases today has become quite rare. Capital clemency has been a victim of the rejection of rehabilitation as the guiding philosophy of criminal sentencing and of the increasing politicization of issues of crime and punishment since the 1960s. Yet despite the reluctance of governors to grant clemency, despite the difficulty of rectifying miscarriages of justice through the clemency process, petitions seeking commutation or pardon in death cases still are regularly presented to chief executives. With so little chance of success, filing them may seem to be nothing more than an empty ritual. In this article, I examine clemency petitions from Texas and Virginia, and I argue that those petitions may serve another function, and take on meaning in another way. This function I...
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State budget problems are prompting lawmakers to reconsider a lot of things, but the issue of crime and punishment has been too hot to touch, even if doing so would save money. HCR2025, which would empower the state Board of Executive Clemency to commute the sentences of any of Arizona's approximately 40,500 prisoners without the governor's approval, could streamline the release of prisoners, each of whom costs the state $22,000 to $28,000 a year to incarcerate.
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To What Extent Should Retributive Justifications Predominate in the Exercise of the Clemency Power? II. Is a Politically-Insulated Administrative Body Better Suited than an "Unruly" Executive to Making Retributive- Based Clemency Decisions? III. How Can we Ensure that Fair Procedures are Employed in the Exercise of the Clemency Power? IV. Conclusion .
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ATLANTA - Georgia's board of pardons rejected a last-ditch clemency bid from Troy Davis on Tuesday, one day before his scheduled execution, despite support from figures including an ex- president and a former FBI director for the claim that he was wrongly convicted of killing a police officer in 1989. Davis is scheduled to die at 7 p.m. today by injection for killing off-duty Savannah officer Mark MacPhail, who was shot dead while rushing to help a homeless man being attacked. It is the fourth time in four years that Davis' execution has been scheduled by Georgia officials.
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ATLANTA - Georgia's board of pardons rejected a last-ditch clemency bid from Troy Davis on Tuesday, one day before his scheduled execution, despite support from figures including a former president and a former FBI director for the claim that he was wrongly convicted of killing a police officer in 1989. Davis is scheduled to die tonight at 7 by injection for killing off-duty Savannah Officer Mark MacPhail, who was shot dead while rushing to help a homeless man being attacked. It is the fourth time in four years that Davis' execution has been scheduled by Georgia officials.
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SEATTLE -- Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee granted clemency to a violent felon who would later gun down four police officers, even though his record in prison was filled with unrelenting violence and exploitation of other inmates, the Seattle Times reported Sunday. A Times investigation into the early life of Maurice Clemmons found that Huckabee either ignored or wasn't aware of Clemmons' record in prison and that the prosecutor and victims in Clemmons' case were not consulted before the clemency decisions that led to his freedom.
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ATLANTA - Georgia's board of pardons rejected a last-ditch clemency bid from Troy Davis on Tuesday, a day before his scheduled execution, despite support from figures including an ex-president and a former FBI director for the claim that he was wrongly convicted of killing a police officer in 1989. Davis is scheduled to die by injection today at 6 p.m. CDT for killing off-duty Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail, who was shot while rushing to help a homeless man being attacked. It is the fourth time in four years that Davis' execution has been scheduled by Georgia officials.
