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.
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.
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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.
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.
After President Obama gave nine pardons over the holidays, Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi has set the bar high, I think, for compassionate pardons.
He also issued two separate batches of pardons in 2011, including eight people in May for relatively minor offenses and five people that November.
More than 3, 000 religious leaders from all fifty states have called on the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles to investigate the case further.
It isn't rare in South Korea, where family-owned chaebol dominate its economy, to see company owners convicted of white collar crimes being granted presidential pardons.
They will have resisted calls by moderates for pardons, he says.
Presidential pardons have become more ceremonial than a way to correct an unjust sentence or show forgiveness to a person who has turned their life around.
Handing out pardons is an established tradition among new monarchs in Saudi Arabia, which Abdullah has ruled as regent since 1995 because of the long illness of King Fahd.
President Bill Clinton left office with immunity from criminal prosecution and a flurry of pardons, including pardons for his half-brother Roger, Patty Hearst and a fugitive oil-trader, Marc Rich.
Khairat al-Shater, a Muslim Brotherhood strongman, could be barred under a provision that bans ex-convicts from running for political office, even if they received pardons and were jailed for political crimes.
National security, anti-corruption measures, accession to the eurozone, appointment of judges and presidential pardons of convicts were among the main issues, according to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Earlier Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a stay of execution, as did the state Supreme Court, while the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles similarly denied a request for clemency.
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