NewsWhore
02-20-2012, 11:00 AM
On Saturday February 18 the Pardon Commission announced that it would only be recommending 16 pardons out of over 600 submitted, based on advice from the relevant authorities including the Dominican Medical Association (CMD), families of the victims and private citizens who expressed their opinions via the commission's or the Attorney General's web page.
Father Aristides Jimenez, the spokesman for the commission, said that they would only be recommending offenders with chronic and terminal illnesses, inmates who had completed all of their sentences, or those who had completed more than half of them, and could not pay compensation.
They would not grant pardons to drug traffickers or those who did not warrant them, said Jimenez, as reported in Hoy.
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Father Aristides Jimenez, the spokesman for the commission, said that they would only be recommending offenders with chronic and terminal illnesses, inmates who had completed all of their sentences, or those who had completed more than half of them, and could not pay compensation.
They would not grant pardons to drug traffickers or those who did not warrant them, said Jimenez, as reported in Hoy.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#7)