Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 3.36pm BST15:36 David Simpson, the DUP MP, says that his constituents were outraged by the revelations about the number of pardons given out in Northern Ireland.
Since his election in 2007, Mr. Ramos-Horta has dramatically increased the number of commutations and pardons handed out, prompting criticism that his actions are weakening accountability in the justice system.
However, dissenting voices have been raised over Turing's pardon, pointing out that the thousands of men convicted of similar offences are still considered criminals.
THE clemency shown this month to 33 people deemed subversive, some of whom were freed from prison while others were pardoned while out on appeal, may mark a loosening of Morocco's political straitjacket.
But that pardon singled out the famous scientist, and made no mention of the tens of thousands of other men who suffered similar fates.
In a speech from the Oval Office, Mr. Ford said that he had issued the pardon out of compassion for Mr. Nixon, who he felt had "suffered enough".
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The Supreme Court had earlier ruled out pardons because their crimes were not political.
"None of the government negotiators at the table has suffered from the war, and they are going to end up handing out pardons in our name," said Sigifredo López, a politician and former FARC hostage.But the guerrillas are unlikely to accept a deal imposing long prison terms.
Even the founder of "Hands Off My Child," the NGO that helped the families of Galván Viña's victims win their landmark case against him — one of the first in which an offender was given such a heavy sentence — defended the monarch's right to give out pardons as he sees fit.
