Unfortunately, some segments of the public, whether through deliberate misunderstanding or inadvertence, fail to see the positive and transformative nature of clemency. This misunderstanding risks discouraging inmates from genuine reform and undermines the credibility of the correctional system’s rehabilitative vision. We must not, in our zeal for justice, throw away the baby with the bathwater.
In the words of late Justice Chukwudifu Oputa (CFR), justice must not be a blind…
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