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As the state’s lieutenant governor since 2019, Fetterman has revitalized the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons, eliminating application fees and presided over a seven-fold rise in recommended commutations of life sentences.

The commutation was also only a partial acceptance of the recommendation earlier this month from the state’s Pardon and Parole Board that Jones be granted clemency and have the chance to be eligible for immediate parole.

Along with Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, they wrote letters to Stitt pleading for commutation.

Stitt had previously announced that he would not be accepting a recommendation from the state’s parole board to commute the death sentence of Jones, which came after a commutation hearing in September.

Earlier this month, he attempted to remove two parole board members from the commutation hearing, after accusing them of being biased because of their connections to advocacy groups that seek to reduce incarceration numbers.

Going forward, the federal Bureau of Prisons will begin advising inmates of the opportunity to apply for sentence commutation.

More than 2,000 supporters have signed a petition arguing for commutation in the days since the sentencing.

Recently leaving an event, Schwarzenegger was asked by a reporter for a comment on the Nunez commutation.

Mr. Shiel said that the preamble already set forth that the bill was to effect a commutation.

Commutation, he argued, would do no good; a new appropriation of church property alone could produce even a momentary calm.

The commutation of tithes in England was a subject still more complicated and difficult.

Often was death demanded as a commutation of this ignominious punishment, but refused with a malignant joy.

If no reprieve could be obtained, no commutation of the sentence, he would speak out and set Andrew Westwood free.