Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a full pardon to a former U.S. Army sergeant convicted of murder for fatally shooting an armed demonstrator in 2020 during nationwide protests against racial injustice.
  • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Wait, not only the POTUS can pardon people (to me, already insanity waiting for more abuse), but your state governors TOO?

    Jesus Christ.

    • Optional@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      To be fair, the people who agreed to it weren’t expecting such balls-out corruption.

      They were thinking maybe a case gets revealed to be corrupt and instead of waiting years for retrial they can just hit the delete key.