Another possible aspect of this, which complicates in some ways what you said in your comment, is that the earlier special pardon for Turing was, to my mind at

Another possible aspect of this, which complicates in some ways what you said in your comment, is that the earlier special pardon for Turing was, to my mind at least, a patronizing idea that cast him as an unworldly "innocent". Gordon Brown, the British PM at the time, made a statement in which he repeatedly referred to Turing as "Alan". It was obviously insincere and came across as inappropriate and condescending. There's work to be done here, all right.