pardon

The pardon is conditional on Najib paying a fine of 50 million ringgit, equivalent to around $12 million.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Last year, he was given an unconditional pardon by US President Donald Trump over a breach of anti-money laundering laws at his crypto trading platform, BitMEX, to which he had pleaded guilty in 2022.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Sri Lanka's Supreme Court overturned Thursday a presidential pardon granted to a hardline Buddhist monk and ordered him to serve the remainder of a six-year prison sentence for intimidating the wife of a missing cartoonist.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

On Dec. 11, 2025, Trump issued what he characterized as a pardon of Peters.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

“Ah, pardon, you yourself, Monsieur, opened your door and looked out for a second.”

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

Presidential pardons only cover federal offences, not state-level cases.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Plus, the White House considers issuing 250 pardons to mark America’s 250th birthday, and Drake returns with a new album.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

What she wants is an apology, and Mary batting her eyes and offering her heartfelt pardons won’t be enough.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026

Stories about pardons are often told as stories about presidential power — who got mercy, who had access, who persuaded a president to intervene.

From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2026

"A hundred pardons, my lord," his master said hur-riedly to Ned.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

In a September 2024 motion, Murrill claimed that by vacating Brooks’ manslaughter conviction while he was a free man and not a prisoner, the court essentially pardoned him.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026

Zubeidi was pardoned in 2007, but Israel later rearrested him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

The day before she was executed, she wrote to George Rogers, the Labour MP for Kensington North at the time, who had campaigned for her to be pardoned.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

He’s no longer a quintessential underdog routinely pardoned for his bad defense, his questionable durability and his tendency to tighten up in the playoffs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

Then and only then would I have the right, so to speak—would I give myself permission, as it were—to consider the alternative hypothesis: I was pardoned.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

Hun Sen, who is currently Cambodia's acting head of state, signed a decree pardoning his political rival on behalf of King Norodom Sihamoni.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

One of Barnett’s previous clients was Alice Marie Johnson, a great-grandmother serving a life sentence for a first-time federal drug offense; Trump commuted her sentence in 2018 before fully pardoning her in 2020.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025

Gerald Ford is best remembered not for his administration’s fight against inflation or for signing campaign finance reforms but for pardoning his predecessor, Richard Nixon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2025

"No, I have no contemplation of pardoning myself for anything. I didn’t do anything wrong."

From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2025

Farmer asked, referring to his argument with Alex about pardoning prisoners.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French