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“There is no such thing as a pardon request without an admission of guilt and without resignation,” said one journalist. “This is a demand for the surrender of the rule of law in Israel.”

Greg Abbott’s pardon is an attack on multiracial democracy.

To single out Turing is to say all the other persecuted gay men are not so deserving of justice because they were less exceptional

The following is a transcript of the statement made by Pfc. Bradley Manning as read by David Coombs at a press conference on Wednesday after Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison.