When a radio host asked Matt Bevin, the former governor of Kentucky, why he had pardoned a man convicted of raping a child, Bevin’s first response was, “Which one?”
“Because there were a couple of people that were accused of that whose sentences I commuted,” he said.
While the pardons issued by Bevin may be as unique as his brash governing style, he is far from the first governor to face a backlash over pardons. They can be politically risky and are issued often as governors are on their way out the door, either at the end of their political term or after an election loss.
The furor over the pardons lasted for months, as did a court challenge from the state’s attorney general. Among the 203 full pardons Barbour issued over two terms, many went to people who had already completed their sentences. More than a dozen were issued to people convicted of murder, and Barbour also pardoned Brett Favre’s brother, who had killed a friend in a drunken-driving crash. Like in Bevin’s case, some victims’ families complained that they had not been consulted beforehand.
The man, Maurice Clemmons, was later shot and killed by a police officer after a manhunt. But the case was used to criticize Huckabee, who was then a Fox News contributor and would later run for president. As governor, he issued three times as many pardons and commutations as the three preceding governors combined.
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