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: Sentencing Law and Policy

Taking stock of President George W. Bush's clemency record

By Douglas A. Berman

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Though perhaps not providing the truly final word on the clemency efforts of our 43rd president, former Pardon Attorney Margaret Love has created (and allowed me to post) a terrific review of President George W. Bush's clemency record.  Here are snippets of her effort, which can be downloaded in full below: The final figures on President Bush?s clemency record establish that he granted fewer pardons and commutations than any two-term president since Thomas Jefferson, and fewer per term than any full-term president since John Adams, with the exception of his father. Statistically, he is tied with his father for the lowest favorable grant rate for pardon petitions (9.8%), and his grant rate for commutations barely registers (.012%). While he pardoned fairly regularly through out his two terms, 76 of his 189 pardons and seven of his eleven commutations were granted in his final year...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 03, 2009 (boomark / email).

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