Biden issues five more pardons and two more commutations on last full day in office

As reported in this New York Times piece, “President Biden pardoned five activists and public servants on Sunday, including a posthumous grant of clemency to the civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, who mobilized the Black nationalist movement and was convicted of mail fraud in 1923.”  Here is more:

Mr. Biden also commuted the sentence of two other people who are serving sentences for crimes that they committed in the 1990s that would keep them behind bars for the rest of their lives. The two individuals, whose petitions have overwhelming support from civil rights activists, will be released next month, Mr. Biden said.

Mr. Biden, who has issued more individual pardons and commutations than any other president, said that the clemency recipients had “demonstrated remorse, rehabilitation and redemption,” and “each made significant contributions to improving their communities.”

Prez Biden’s full statement and details about the latest seven clemency recipients can be found at this link.  Interestingly, this latest statement does not include the phrase found in the last statement that Prez Biden “will continue to review additional commutations and pardons.” I doubt that omission is meant to indicate that these seven grants are Prez Biden’s last clemency, but perhaps only that he has really has no more time for further review with now less than 24 hours left in the Oval Office.