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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 · October 26, 2021. As relatives looked on, some sobbing, some applauding, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam granted posthumous pardons in August to the Martinsville Seven, young Black men...
- 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.
To be sure, the white victim identified her attackers as black men, and the defendants are black men: Is the pardon’s implication that Ruby Stroud Floyd falsely identified the defendants because of mistaken cross-racial bias?
Jan 19, 2022 · But that doesn’t mean the dead should not be pardoned or that a posthumous pardon is pointless. In fact, such pardons though largely symbolic, can be very important—they are a way of reckoning ...
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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.
