pardons

Two Prisoners, One Pardon

White House pardons a drug dealer, not a Governor.

President Obama has commuted the sentence of a Montgomery man convicted of drug crimes, but has taken no action to pardon former Governor Don Siegelman, who is in the same prison at the freed convict. The pardons are part of a White House effort to release federal prisoners who received severe sentences for non-violent drug offenses. Jerome Lee Menefee was…