Category:Recipients of American presidential clemency

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The President of the United States has the authority to grant clemency and pardons to people convicted of criminal offenses, usually in the form of a commuted sentence. Also see: Category:Recipients of American presidential pardons. The difference between clemency and pardons is that a pardon means erasure of the crime the person was convicted and clemency is a shortening of a convict's sentence.