Word: pardons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...killing." Counters Amsterdam: "The answer can hardly be found in a literal application of the eye-for-an-eye formula. We do not burn down arsonists' houses." The scriptures do preach mercy as well as retribution. Last Saturday, in fact, Pope John Paul II sweepingly recommended "clemency, or pardon, for those condemned to death...
...Pardon me, do you play basketball?" "No, I clean giraffes' ears...
...prosecutor in the 1945-46 Nuremberg trials to leading the 1977-78 House investigation in the Koreagate bribery scandal. In his tireless but meticulously fair pursuit of Nixon, Jaworski resisted pressure first from the White House and later from an angered public when he supported Nixon's pardon. If the "court asked me if I believed Nixon could receive a fair trial," he explained, "I would have to answer, as an officer of the court, in the negative...
...Philadelphia radio the night of the Hinckley decision, an angry young "man in the street" was quoted as saying of the verdict: "...Yeah, and now [H.R.] Haldeman [a Nixon White House aide] is gonna be able to get a pardon by saying he committed Watergate for Jody Foster," Such analogies will be the Right's main ammunition in trying to use last week's decision to weaken controversial court practices that and defendants, like the exclusionary rule, which prohibits the use of illegally seized evidence in a trial. In defense of those liberal practices, it's worth observing two things...
...second observation is that any forced analogies the Right will make-like that of Hinckley to Haldeman-are preposterous. Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon offended us because Nixon evaded liability for his action by using his contacts within government, when a friendless outsider, a loser like Hinckley, is let off there is, at least, no collusion to abhor. Whether the jury last week correctly deemed Hinckley insane will always be a judgement call. But the fact that he could win his reprieve from a system whose participants were predisposed against him seems worth applauding for a moment...