Sentence examples for outright pardon from inspiring English sources
Mr. Libby, known as Scooter, has been at the top of the speculative lists that accompany the holiday season, especially in the last year of a presidency, of who might receive a White House gift of clemency, which can take the form of an outright pardon or a commutation of a sentence.
And at any point in the proceedings Manning could have been sentenced to time served and released or outright pardoned.
In his sweeping moves on Friday and Saturday, Mr. Ryan granted outright pardons to four men because he believed they were innocent, cut the sentences of three others to 40 years, and created 164 new lifers.
But it did find that Mr Libby had been repeatedly untruthful in his answers to questions about the affair, rejecting his contention that these were honest errors of recollection.Mr Bush did not pardon Mr Libby outright, saying that he accepted the verdict.
The four men Mr. Ryan pardoned outright had been condemned based on confessions elicited in a notorious Chicago police station that used torture to prod confessions from suspects.
