A Louisiana board on Friday voted to pardon Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling affirming state segregation laws.

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A onetime death-row inmate whose complaint against a retired Harford County state’s attorney led to his disbarment is seeking a pardon ...

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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam granted posthumous pardons Tuesday to seven Black men who were executed in 1951 for the rape of a white woman.

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HAGERSTOWN — Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning is seeking a presidential pardon for sending reams of classified information to WikiLeaks, a leak she says was done “out of a love for my country and sense of duty to others,” according to ...

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FORT MEADE — Three years after Bradley Manning rocked the Pentagon by leaking a mountain of secrets, the soldier created a whole new set of potential complications for the military Thursday when he announced he intends to live as a ...

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WILMINGTON, Del. — The family of a Delaware woman killed by the man who had his death sentence commuted this week by Gov. Jack Markell says the focus should be on the 26-year-old woman they lost. The News Journal reports ...

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WILMINGTON, Del. — A Superior Court judge is holding a hearing to put final approval to Gov. Jack Markell’s decision to commute the death sentence of a man who was facing execution this week for the murder of his former ...

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DOVER, Del. — Delaware Gov. Jack Markell has decided to spare the life of a man who was facing execution this week for the 1990 murder of his former girlfriend. Robert Gattis was scheduled to die by lethal injection Friday ...

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