"Abuse of the Pardoning Power."
- Title
- "Abuse of the Pardoning Power."
- Source Type
- Newspapers
- Publisher
- The Reaper
- Publication Place
- Sheffield, AL
- Publication Date
- 06/29/1895
- Transcript
- ABUSE OF THE PARDONING POWER. Gov. Oates has pardoned Alonzo Edwards, of Elmore county, who was convicted of white-capping, and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. No convict should be pardoned unless for excellent reasons. A man pardoned by Gov. Jones was recently engaged in a murderous assault upon two aged ladies for the purpose of robbery; and this only one instance of the many in which executive clemency has been abused.- Tuskegee News.
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