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Swartz is dead, so I don't know what pardoning him now would accomplish other than securing a useless symbolic 'victory'.
by tkahn6 14y ago
Swartz is dead, so I don't know what pardoning him now would accomplish other than securing a useless symbolic 'victory'.
- mpyne 14y agoHe can't even be pardoned; the charges were dropped. Even if the charges were somehow still in effect, the proper thing to do would be to have the charges dropped entirely. A pardon implies guilt, it simply commutes the sentence of the convicted.