But predictably, not everyone agreed that he should be pardoned.
Richard Ojwang, 37, a carpenter, said: "None of the commanders should be pardoned.
I believe more than ever that he should be pardoned, by the way.
"Those who committed crimes should go to face justice, and the hundreds and millions of people who never committed crimes, they should be pardoned and should be part and parcel of the Iraqi society," he said.
But who at Justice advised what person at the White House that Rich should be pardoned, and how were "those comments," if such existed, transmitted to Clinton?
But on the question of whether Snowden should be pardoned or jailed, he said: "I don't think it's so obvious one way or the other".
Javier Valle Riestra, a noted constitutional lawyer, was Peru's prime minister until he condemned the Berenson trial methods and said she should be pardoned.
He continued: "There is a feeling that perhaps if he should be pardoned, then perhaps so should all of those men, whose names were ruined in their lifetime, but who still have families".
Scant funding for medical treatment makes life awful for all sorts of prisoners, not only the infirm.Few Taiwanese, even among the DPP faithful, think that Mr Chen should be pardoned.
Mandisa, returning from a session of the amnesty hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, is stunned by the idea that the white killer of a black woman and child should be pardoned.
