Criminal
Jul. 29, 2015
Obama's clemency initiative inspires a call to arms
The president has an initiative that reinvigorates executive clemency power and promises to ameliorate excessively harsh sentences imposed on offenders as a result of the War on Drugs. By James E. Felman
For decades, the organized bar has prayed for a president to exercise his historic
power to award clemency and grant pardons to convicted federal offenders. President
Barack Obama has now responded with an initiative that reinvigorates executive clemency
power and promises to ameliorate excessively harsh sentences imposed on offenders
(particularly nonviolent drug offenders) as a resul...
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