"The politics of telling people who have been pardoned, en masse, that they are criminals once more is not the same as the politics of opposing their pardon in the first place," writes the National Review's Daniel Foster.
Briefly reconciled with Henry (and officially pardoned) in the first half of 1530, he was charged once more in November 1530, this time for treason, but died while awaiting trial.
The pardon was in the first sentence of the obituary the Times ran when Ford died, in 2006; in the eight thousand words that followed, Stevens wasn't mentioned at all.
Last month, the governor of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, who is approaching the end of his eight years in office, approved four pardons, the first in the state since 2002.
The governor said the posthumous pardon -- the first in the state's history -- was "a declaration of New York's commitment to upholding the First Amendment".
He was pardoned by the first President Bush in 1992.
Abrams pleaded guilty in 1987 to withholding information from about the Nicaraguan Contra case from Congress, before being pardoned by the first President Bush in 1992.
In the first batch of pardons of his final holiday season in the White House, President Clinton today pardoned 59 people including Dan Rostenkowski, the once-powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, a man whose conviction exemplified the passing of an old-fashioned style of leadership in Congress.
With this pardon I become the first individual in New York State to receive clemency and a pardon which helps vindicate the draconian 15-to-life sentence I received as a first time non-violent offender.
Two years later she was given the role of canteen manageress in the first of two Coronation Street spin-off series, Pardon the Expression.
