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Jun 21, 2018 · With President Trump making frequent use of the pardon power, 7 historians suggest figures from American history worthy of consideration.
Oct 26, 2021 · America’s governors clearly believe that posthumous pardons have value, because they are issuing them at a rate never seen before, particularly in cases in which racial prejudice is thought...
- Scott D. Seligman
One of the most notorious race riots in American history, the incident was triggered by whites who were rampaging over a rumored sexual assault by a Black man of a white woman.
On January 11, 2019, the Florida Clemency Board unanimously granted posthumous pardons to the “Groveland Four,” four young African-American men falsely accused of raping a white teenager in Lake County, Florida in 1949.
Jun 18, 2024 · But a posthumous pardon does have other important and socially beneficial effects: It corrects the institutional record by publicly expunging the guilt associated with the unlawful or unconstitutional actions of the government.
Posthumous pardons are inevitably celebrated for repudiating past injustices and restoring faith in the legal system. This Article views this widely praised phenomenon with skepticism.
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Jan 19, 2022 · Posthumous pardons such as the one issued by Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards to Homer Plessy allow society to learn from past wrongs.
