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The Roman Catholic faith is deeply rooted in Brittany; there are pilgrimages, or pardons, at Locronan, Josselin, and Ste.

Whereas Bill Clinton pardoned 140 people in his last few days in office, including a dodgy financier whose ex-wife donated to the Democrats, Mr Bush granted no last-minute pardons at all.

Jim Hood, the attorney general, is the sole Democrat in statewide office, and in recent weeks has denounced Mr. Barbour over the pardons, at one point comparing him to Boss Hogg from "The Dukes of Hazzard".

Representative Dan Burton, Republican of Indiana and chairman of the committee, said the rush of pardons at the end of Mr. Clinton's term created the image of a double standard for justice.

On pardons, you've given out pardons at a slower rate than your predecessors.

Think Progress reported Tuesday that a White House spokesman was disputing the notion that President George Bush would not issue a "batch of pardons" at the last minute.

"Clyde gave him a pardon at the Garden".

In public, the Bush Administration accepted the pardon at face value.

"Or he might even be against the pardon at this late date.

President Thein Sein pardoned at least 20 political prisoners on Friday, just ahead of a state visit to the United States.

And yet it seems that Mr Putin needed Mr Khodorkovsky to ask for pardon at least as much as if not more than Mr Khodorkovsky himself.