‘Killing hope’: Advocates say gov has abandoned clemency reforms after failing to commute sentences

‘Killing hope’: Advocates say gov has abandoned clemency reforms after failing to commute sentences

Issuing her first round of clemencies in eight months, Governor Kathy Hochul on Friday pardoned 13 people but chose not to commute the sentence of a single New Yorker, despite the fact that commutation request make up a vast majority of the hundreds of clemency applications sent to the governor’s desk each year.

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