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Lee, who has the power to pardon Pike or commute her sentence, has not indicated what the state will do in her case.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

United States holds that a pardon doesn’t restore to a person property already seized or paid to the government, and a $40,000 fine I’d paid as part of my sentence was sitting in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

His latest appeal was turned down, but he is still hoping for a presidential pardon.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Constitution grants the president nearly unbounded power to pardon whomever he likes, whenever he likes and for whatever reason he likes.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

“You will pardon me, M. Poirot, but I do not quite understand you.”

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

The proposal would also allow convicts to serve their terms in Kosovo, limit sentences to 15 years and clear the way for presidential pardons.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

In Northern Ireland, the Department of Justice is working on a review of the pardons and disregards scheme, with a view to bringing new proposals to the Executive in the next Assembly mandate.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

No one doubts that pardons are indeed irreversible.

From Slate ● May 26, 2026

Throughout history, kings and popes traditionally celebrated “jubilee” years with granting pardons and forgiving sins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026

There were many motivations for these journeys: ambition, greed, national pride, religious fanaticism, prison pardons, scientific curiosity, the thirst for adventure and the unavailability of suitable employment in Estremadura.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

They were released when the Spanish government pardoned them in 2021.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Year: 2022 Compiled by: Shirin Ali Of note: Santos would later be expelled from Congress, sentenced to prison, and pardoned by President Donald Trump.

From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026

He denied wrongdoing and was pardoned in 2022.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026

Trump pardoned the elder Kushner in 2020 and named him U.S. ambassador to France in 2024.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

It would look bad for the American consul to be hosting a man who has only just been pardoned by the government.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

One of Barnett’s previous clients was Alice Marie Johnson, a great-grandmother serving a life sentence for a first-time federal drug offense; Trump commuted her sentence in 2018 before fully pardoning her in 2020.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025

Gerald Ford is best remembered not for his administration’s fight against inflation or for signing campaign finance reforms but for pardoning his predecessor, Richard Nixon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2025

Although the pardoning power is considered broad, it is not limitless.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2024

The modern era of parsimonious pardoning began in the late 1970s, when the attorney general delegated the task of recommending pardons to a bureaucracy within the Justice Department.

From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2024

Farmer asked, referring to his argument with Alex about pardoning prisoners.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French