Washington, Dec 12, 2024 (AFP) - Biden grants clemency to nearly 1,500 people, most ever in a day

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2024-12-12

Outgoing US President Joe Biden said Thursday he had commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoned 39 others, in what the White House called the largest single-day act of clemency in the nation's history. "America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances," Biden said in a statement announcing the action. "As President, I have the great privilege of extending mercy to people who have demonstrated remorse and rehabili......

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