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Sean Bolser
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Freakishly tall Midwesterner in Brooklyn. Capital public defender. Bowling biking baseball and a monster cat.
Thank you, Jimmy Carter. The world is better for your having lived in it.
December 29, 2024 at 9:14 PM
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December 26th, 1862, the executions of 38 Dakota men were carried out on the order of President Abraham Lincoln in Mankato, MN in the largest mass execution in American history. After hasty “trials”, the execution was carried out by hanging in a public square. The men, whose cases were each reviewed
December 26, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Call the WH. Make your voice heard. Clear the row.

www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Exclusive | Biden Weighs Commuting Sentences of Death Row Inmates
Such a move would frustrate President-elect Donald Trump’s ability to resume the rapid pace of executions that marked his first term.
www.wsj.com
December 21, 2024 at 1:41 AM
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If he's going there for his son, he had better do this. www.lawdork.com/p/joe-biden-...
December 2, 2024 at 12:21 AM
Reposted by Sean Bolser
Executive pardon power is underused and we need a return to our traditions of industrial-scale clemency and categorical amnesties – especially at the state level. My 2015 piece from the American Conservative: www.theamericanconservative.com/the-case-for...
The Case for Clemency
To forgive prisoners is divine—or as close as government gets.
www.theamericanconservative.com
December 2, 2024 at 12:59 AM
Reposted by Sean Bolser
Impossible to overstate the urgency of this situation. theintercept.com/2024/11/27/b...
Biden Has “Pardoned” Eight Turkeys. Will He Spare the Lives of 40 Human Beings?
With Donald Trump returning to the White House, only mass commutations by Biden will stop another federal execution spree.
theintercept.com
December 2, 2024 at 1:11 AM
How is the sun already setting?
November 21, 2023 at 2:45 PM
101 days until pitchers and catchers report.
November 2, 2023 at 3:54 PM