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| Source Type: | Newspaper |
| Publisher: | The Reaper |
| Place of publication: | Sheffield, Alabama |
| Date of publication: | 6/29/1896 |
| Transcript: | Abuse of the Pardoning Power. Gov. Oates has pardoned Alonzo Edwards, of Elmore County, who was convicted of white-capping and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. No convict should be pardoned unless for excellent reasons. A man pardoned by Gov. Jones was recently engeaged in murderout assault upon two aged ladied for the purpose of robbery; an this only one instance of the many in which executive clmency has been abused.– Tuskegee News. |
| Citation: | “Abuse of Pardoning Power.” The Reaper (Sheffield, Alabama), June 29, 1895. |