Some citizens worry, however, that pardons are disproportionately granted to the rich and influential.
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The justice minister, Horacio Rosatti, has suggested that the court declare Mr Menem's pardons unconstitutional.
Four are hanged, one commits suicide and three win pardons after seven years in prison.
They were sentenced to death but received pardons in 1997 by then-President Kim Young-Sam.
Pardons and amnesties and commutations and various nullifications are not violations of the rule of law.
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All of these pardons stunned and outraged the U.S. Attorneys who prosecuted these cases.
In addition to selling fake Cuban birth certificates, Morejon also sold fraudulent presidential pardons, prosecutors said.
The pardons advanced no public policy, acknowledged no sincere expression of remorse or evidence of rehabilitation.
Czech presidents, like many heads of state, have the power to issue amnesties and pardons.
Also under pressure: Justice Secretary Serafin Cuevas, for including a priest killer among convicts granted presidential pardons.
The BBC's Ignatius Bahizi in Kampala say the law primarily pardons those fighters who surrender and denounce rebellion.
On Sunday, prosecutors said Mr Budimir and four other officials had taken bribes to arrange pardons for convicts.
He says he has no choice but to prosecute it: it is not his job to dispense pardons.
Other executives at the state level issue pardons that are just as lame.
You know, FBI agents lobbying the White House because they didn't like pardons that were going to be given.
Send messages to the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles thanking them for supporting Justice for ALL in Georgia.
Everyone is waiting to see whether Mr Lee pardons him before stepping down.
Jim Bunning, R-Kentucky, cited the pardons and what he called Holder's insufficient support for gun rights in opposing the nomination.
The statistics cited in Romney's ad come from a recent Associated Press examination of Huckabee's record of commutations and pardons.
Because the time for presidential pardons of controversial people is in the lame duck period, after a president is leaving office.
It's where Republicans investigated All Things Clinton, from the purge at the White House travel office to President Bill Clinton's last-minute pardons.
He granted his first pardons in December 2010, to nine people convicted of such offenses as drug possession, counterfeiting and mutilating coins.
Cuba won approval for an anti-terrorism resolution condemning the pardons, though the language of the resolution is likely to be toned down.
During the latest Pardons and Parole Board hearing a Georgia Bureau of Investigation ballistics expert was present to testify about this evidence.
But the FALN pardons were distinctly a far graver matter because they represented a serious threat to public safety and national security.
Lee has not been helping his cause with a series of late pardons of friends and allies in the graft-worn political system.
Her office has already criticized the granting of various late pardons by the outgoing president Lee Myung-Bak, a member of her own party.
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The FALN pardons were one of the most egregious examples of the abuse of raw presidential power that occurred during Bill Clinton's presidency.
After President Obama gave nine pardons over the holidays, Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi has set the bar high, I think, for compassionate pardons.
The White House offered no details on why these particular people were selected by Obama, who has issued relatively few pardons since taking office.
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