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I agree, but there has in the UK been at least one posthumous mass pardon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_Act_2006#Pardon http://en.wikipedia.org/w

• pbhjpbhj 14y ago
  Whilst these were, by that link, not really "pardons" in the legal sense there is another important difference. These represent a change in the material facts considered in the convictions (hence presumably if anything happened the convictions should really have been overturned; doing it the way they did probably avoided getting sued though?) - these people were shot for cowardice/desertion but it is now understood that they were suffering a mental health condition, ie shell-shock. So as far as precedent goes this doesn't appear relevant [to me] as in Turing's case it is a revisionist attitude to the moral underpinning of the law at the time that has changed things and not the material facts.