In appropriate circumstances the power of pardon can ease national tensions, heal political wounds and right historic wrongs.
THE submission by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s family of a petition for pardon to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong draws our attention to this controversial power of clemency which the executive wields in almost every legal system.
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