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The commission urged a pardon, calling the 20-year sentence handed down on Wednesday "cruel" and citing a wish to stem any return to Russia's totalitarian past.

Apparently there is more than one way to pay.In contrast, Mr Giuliani urged a pardon to be granted to another man, one he successfully prosecuted, who actually served time in jail and paid restitution: Michael Milken.

At a news conference in Nicaragua earlier in the day, Mr. Ortega said he hoped the pardon would "contribute to ending once and for all the criminal war that has been imposed on us". He said American political and religious leaders who oppose Administration policy toward Nicaragua had urged a pardon.

For years @SenJohnMcCain and I have urged a Pardon for Jack Johnson.

President George W. Bush closely reviewed the facts in the case at the behest of Vice President Dick Cheney, who urged a pardon.

Protesters hung banners urging a pardon from balconies across the street from the residence of Mr. Peres, where he and Obama planted a magnolia tree brought from the United States.

Prominent Swiss citizens who wrote to President Clinton to urge a pardon for Marc Rich have become the focus of an outcry here over whether the former fugitive trader bought their support for his pardon through charitable contributions.

4 Pardon Furor Over Swiss Elite Prominent Swiss citizens who wrote President Clinton to urge a pardon for Marc Rich, then a fugitive trader, have become the focus of an outcry over whether Mr. Rich bought their support through charitable contributions.

Congress has approved a resolution urging a presidential pardon for Jack Johnson, the black heavyweight champion in the early 1900s who was imprisoned because of his romantic ties with a white woman.

Mr. Lott also urged a Congressional investigation of Mr. Clinton's pardon of the fugitive Marc Rich.

He urged a civil conversation.