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“It’s our system that allows the president to exercise his pardon power,” he said.

Despite key testimony against him, Dwyer professed his innocence, even seeking a pardon from then-president Ronald Reagan.

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As Ron Nehring, the former chairman of the Republican Party in San Diego and California put it, he did not deserve a pardon.

She was later acquitted of crimes against humanity and in 2018 received a presidential pardon.

That question may or may not arise, but it’s one that calls for legal analysis about what the scope of the pardon power is.

Wahlberg filed his petition for a pardon to the governor of Massachusetts on November 26.

We won an unprecedented pardon from then-President Karzai, and Gulnaz was freed.

The government should be asking the relatives of Alan Turing to pardon them for treating him so appallingly!

“There aren't any steaks involved, pardon the pun,” says Chin.

For all our sins, may the Force that makes forgiveness possible forgive us, pardon us, and make atonement possible.

When the father had finished, he stabbed his wife, telling her to repent of her sins and to confess to God who would pardon her.

If your Majesty will accept mine, you will pardon me for being longer in the answer than was the question.

I am very much obliged for your continued favours, and beg pardon for so often troubling you.

If one man injures another, the prerogative of pardon should belong to the injured man.

The dust in the curtains, if you will pardon me for hinting such a thing, has parched my throat to a crisp.

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On this page you'll find 121 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pardon, such as: absolution, allowance, amnesty, clemency, mercy, and remission.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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