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Whereupon Mr. Perovich grumbled, protested. He preferred a death sentence to a life sentence. And, in 1925, a Kansas District Judge ruled that the presidential right to annul a sentence (by pardon) did not include the right to alter it (by commutation) without the prisoner's consent. Thus mercy became high-handed, clemency a usurpation. Furthermore, since Mr. Perovich was being illegally held, his detention could not continue, so he was released under a habeas corpus writ. At large, Mr. Perovich opened a barber shop, has spent the last two years law-abidingly wielding shears and razor...
...Supreme Court, the Chief Justice of which is, of course, the same William Howard Taft whose 1909 action constituted the point at issue. Dignified, fairminded, Chief Justice Taft took no part in the court's deliberations. But the Court upheld him, reversed the Kansas decision. It held that the pardoning power was part of the machinery of the law, that this machinery operates without regard to the consent of those affected. It held also that changing a death sentence to a life sentence was a legitimate part of the pardoning power, since a life sentence is commonly regarded as less...
...What plan do I follow when I pardon somebody? First I examine his War record. Evidently, if he is maimed or has won medals or passed several years in the trenches he has higher chances for clemency than one who has not. Then I examine the state of his health and his family. Finally, I examine what the deportee himself has to say for himself...
...water and emergency army rations, along with 451 gallons of gasoline were put into his monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis. "When I enter the cockpit," said he, "it's like going into the death chamber. When I step out at Paris it will be like getting a pardon from the governor...
...Arrival. He did not collapse in his cockpit immediately after landing, as some early despatches stated. His first words were, "Well, here we are. I am very happy": and not "Well, I did it" or "I got my pardon...