Obama Granted Fewer Requests for Clemency Than Any Other President in the Last Century
Alternet- President Barack Obama’s Nov. 21 pardons of three marijuana offenders are extremely unlikely to indicate any shift in the White House’s pot policies. The three had already served their sentences.
More important is his commutation of crack dealer Eugenia Jennings’ sentence, the first clemency request Obama has granted since he took office. Groups that advocate eliminating the difference between penalties for crack and powder cocaine pointed to her case as an example of the system’s injustice.
"Her case screamed out for commutation,” said Kara Gotsch of the Sentencing Project in Washington, DC. Read more.
More important is his commutation of crack dealer Eugenia Jennings’ sentence, the first clemency request Obama has granted since he took office. Groups that advocate eliminating the difference between penalties for crack and powder cocaine pointed to her case as an example of the system’s injustice.
"Her case screamed out for commutation,” said Kara Gotsch of the Sentencing Project in Washington, DC. Read more.
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