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To: KoRn

The pardon power is not related to the "crime", but is to forgive the sentence. She has been sentenced to death, and the President could stop it.


12 posted on 03/25/2005 10:05:28 AM PST by SENTINEL (USMC GWI (MY GOD IS GOD, ROCKCHUCKER !!))
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To: SENTINEL
The pardon power is not related to the "crime", but is to forgive the sentence. She has been sentenced to death, and the President could stop it.

No, he can't. There is no crime to pardon. And under our federalist system, he doesn' have the power to intervene within what is essentially a state matter.

This will have to be resolved within the State of Florida.

14 posted on 03/25/2005 10:06:45 AM PST by dirtboy (Drooling moron since 1998...)
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To: SENTINEL
The pardon power is not related to the "crime", but is to forgive the sentence.

You need to stop malpracticing law without a license. You're thinking of a commuting a sentence - a pardon does relate to the crime.

15 posted on 03/25/2005 10:07:02 AM PST by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: SENTINEL
She has been sentenced to death, and the President could stop it.

No she hasn't. This has to be the most idiotic thread ever to appear on FR.

41 posted on 03/25/2005 10:23:52 AM PST by mountaineer
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To: SENTINEL
The pardon power is not related to the "crime", but is to forgive the sentence.

Explain to me, please, why Presidents issue pardons to some people who have already completed their sentence? And don't tell me that it expunges the crime from their record, because it doesn't.

57 posted on 03/25/2005 10:32:21 AM PST by Dog Gone
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