Gov. Kathy Hochul pardoned nine people and commuted the sentences of four others on Wednesday — a year after she last granted several New Yorkers clemency — and pledged to continue to do so “on an ongoing basis,' despite having not done so for a year.
More than a month after Election Day, 450 people seeking pardons and 861 seeking sentence commutations were still waiting for a decision.
“While our hearts break for those who are equally deserving of clemency and did not receive good news today, we double down on our commitment to keep fighting for their freedom,” Jose DiLenola, clemency campaign director of the Release Aging People in Prison Campaign, said in a statement. “There are a lot of people that are incarcerated that are worthy of that opportunity to come home,” said Jon-Adrian Velazquez, whose sentence was commuted just before then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo left office. Velazquez served more than 23 years in prison for a crime he maintains he did not commit.
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