Month-long protest draws attention to clemency powers
Gov. Roy Cooper announced pardons in December.
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Gov. Roy Cooper announced pardons in December.
NEW HANOVER COUNTY — A man charged with drug and weapon offenses in New Hanover county 23 years ago was one of only four to receive a pardon from Gov.
Cooper Commutes Sentences and Issues Pardons of Forgiveness
Cooper commuted six sentences and issued four pardons, weeks into an ongoing vigil outside his house demanding he use his clemency powers.
It was mid-August. The playgrounds of Brookline, Massachusetts, had finally reopened, and so the news spread fast. Sharon Abramowitz had resigned from the school committee. If a lab wanted to manufacture a school committee member to help the 7,800-student Brookline School District through the COVID crisis, it probably would’ve ended up with Abramowitz. The sociologist-anthropologist-epidemiologist had studied Ebola, written interagency guidelines about what community engagement should look like during a crisis, and, after the district shut down in March, spent 40 hours a week in volunteer m...