pardons
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Kim Kardashian West, J. Cole Bring Attention to the Julius Jones Case in Oklahoma as Execution Date Nears
Kim Kardashian West said she is waiting to see if Oklahoma's Governor Stitt will stop Thursday's execution
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Texas Pardons Board Recommends Posthumous Pardon for George Floyd in Drug Conviction
Former officer Gerald Goines, who was caught manufacturing confidential informants in a 2004 sting operation, arrested George Floyd for selling crack cocaine.
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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson Pardons White Couple Who Brandished Guns at Protesters, but an Innocent Black Man Imprisoned for More Than 4 Decades Is Not a ‘Priority’
The governor lived up to his vow to pardon Mark and Patricia McCloskey. But Kevin Strickland will have to continue to wait.
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Capitol Terrorists Seek Trump Pardons, Some Already Freed from Jail
It’ll be worth watching the process of American justice as it is applied to the mostly white insurrectionists who took over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 with threats to hurt and hang elected government representatives. Already, some of them have indicated that they expect special treatment—like wanting to be served organic food while in…
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Slavery and 4 Other Things We Expect to Happen if Trump Wins a Second Term
There are some who believe that should Trump somehow pull out a victory on Election Day, America is headed for armageddon. They believe that the president will ride to a podium on the White House lawn on the backs of two unfriendly, fire-breathing dragons, wearing the black hood of a guillotine executioner in which he’d…
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Trump Reportedly Told Aides Not to Worry About Breaking the Law to Get the Wall Built Because He’ll Pardon Them
President Donald Trump needs the wall, some wall, any wall to be built before November 2020 or his presidency will be seen as an abject failure by those still left on the Trump Titanic. This wall—the physical symbol of racial hatred—which will span the U.S.-Mexico border, has become the standard for which Trump will be…