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Dec
31
2022
By The African Mirror
Biden’s pardons show focus on easing drug punishments, and women’s rights

Biden’s pardons show focus on easing drug punishments, and women’s rights

WORLD
TREVOR HUNNICUTT U.S. President Joe Biden pardoned six people who have already served time for crimes, including five convicted of drug or alcohol-related offences and a woman who killed her allegedly abusive husband nearly five decades ago. The latest pardons showed Biden nudging U.S. criminal justice policy away from the war-on-drugs ethos that he and other liberal lawmakers once championed. Now gearing up for a possible re-election bid in 2024, the Democratic president faces pressure to show progress on racial and criminal justice issues. The United States has less than 5% of the world's population but a fifth of its…
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Jan
07
2022
By The African Mirror
Britain extends pardons to all men convicted under scrapped gay sex laws

Britain extends pardons to all men convicted under scrapped gay sex laws

LGBT+
RACHEL SAVAGE GAY and bisexual British men convicted over any consensual same-sex relations under now-abolished laws will be able to have their convictions removed from the public record, the government said on Tuesday. The announcement extends a programme launched a decade ago that granted pardons to gay men convicted of "buggery", "gross indecency" and "sodomy". It will now cover all other convictions related to consensual same-sex sexual activity. Home Secretary Priti Patel said the move was aimed at "righting the wrongs of the past". "It is only right that where offences have been abolished, convictions for consensual activity between same-sex…
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