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POSTHUMOUS EXONERATION • Canada has recently issued two posthumous exonerations: • On May 23, 2019 Chief Pihtokahanapiwiyin (Poundmaker) was exonerated by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Poundmaker had been wrongfully convicted of treason-felony for his participation in the North-West Resistance of 1885.
Pardons (now called “record suspensions”) allowed people who were convicted of a criminal offence, but had since demonstrated that they were law-abiding citizens, to have their record of conviction be kept separate and apart from other criminal records.
Feb 8, 2023 · Posthumous Exonerations. Almost all exonerees live to see their exonerations, but 25 of the first 3,365 exonerees in the Registry—less than 1%—did not. These posthumous exonerations can be found by clicking the PH code under “Tags” on the Registry website.
Professor Bumsted sets out the case for a pardon as follows: At the beginning of the 21st century there is little doubt that Louis Riel should receive a posthumous pardon. He should be pardoned partly so that he can take his rightful and undisputed place as the Father of Manitoba.
With the goal of piercing the rhetorical fog that envelops this issue, it considers the legal merits of two recent cases: the “Martinsville Seven,” who were pardoned, and George Floyd, who was not. From these examples, the Article draws cautionary lessons on the appropriate uses of pardons to exonerate the dead.
Posthumous pardoning is a form of symbolic redemption from the unintended consequences of posthumous punishment. From the perspective of historic justice the military executions were intelligible and generally consistent with historic values and military justice and procedures at the time.
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Oct 26, 2021 · Pardons are most beneficial when they redeem the living. But posthumous ones can show that discredited values of the past are no longer the values of the present.
