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* Jesse James was shot in the back of the head because, well, [[Combat Pragmatism|who wants to try to outdraw Jesse James?]] The governor pardoned it because of the assumption that the state would be better off without Jesse James.
** In point of fact that is what pardoning power is for, to allow a little bend in the justice process for the sake of magnanimity, or some kind of reward for something or other, or political expediency or whatever. Or even from delicacy (at the end of a suppressed rebellion the prisoners are of course theoretically criminals but can be pardoned or get diminished sentences simply because hanging too many of them at once is kinda gross).
* According to his White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham, this was the general attitude of former American President [[Donald Trump]] while in office.
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