Nearly every country in the world has a mechanism for executive clemency, which, though residual in most legal systems, serves as a vital due process safeguard

Virtually every constitutional order in the common law world contains a provision for executive clemency or pardon in criminal cases. This facility for legal me

Florida has nearly 101,000 inmates in 49 major state prisons and numerous correctional facilities called annexes and work camps.A clemency commutation of senten

The President of the United States and the Governor of each state are empowered to grant pardons and commutations. A pardon can eliminate the collateral consequ

Until President Gerald Ford pardoned former president Richard Nixon for the Watergate scandal, most members of the public probably paid little attention to the