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The announcement comes as part of a wave of pardons and commutations in the final weeks of Trump's presidency.
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"We were surprised that the American president issued a decision to pardon these criminals, murderers and thugs," says an Iraqi man who was shot in the 2007 massacre at Baghdad's Nisour Square.
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Presidents have awarded clemency in this way before, but it's certainly not the usual course of action. And there are unresolved questions about what might be to come.
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NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the life of Susan B. Anthony on the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and questions the need for a posthumous pardon by President Trump.
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In one case that has drawn particular attention, he pardoned a murderer whose family raised big money to pay off Bevin's campaign debt.