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Into the Chambre des Députés was introduced an amnesty bill, designed to pardon all those persons sentenced to imprisonment or exile for political and military crimes during...
...understand that the fine had been paid although the sentence had not been served. The President's statement was given out following the action of a Chicago judge who ruled that the man was sentenced for contempt and that, therefore, the President did not have the power to pardon. Attorney General Stone instituted an examination of the case to determine whether the denial of the President's power to pardon was legal...
...Members of Parliament signed a petition asking King George to sign a pardon for two sheepdogs belonging to an M. P., which were convicted of worrying sheep in Scotland. The dogs had been sentenced to death by a local Police Court. An appeal was made to the Secretary for Scotland, who replied that he could reprieve a man but not a dog. The Lord Advocate advised that only the King could save the dogs. One of the guilty dogs is about to become a mother...
Last week their final hope of escaping prison was felled by the decision of President Coolidge not to pardon them. The trial judge and the District Attorney both opposed a pardon...
...George's proposed treatment of capital offenders thoroughly proves that his theories, as he himself has said, are neither mushy nor maudlin. In segregating them for the term of their natural lives, he eliminates all possibility of pardon or ultimate release. It might be urged that a murderer might very well reform with the passage of time, but in the general run of cases, the risk to the rest of the population which a premature release or an error in judgment would entail, seems to justify at least permanent confinement--where the present penalty is usually death...