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Excerpt from The Encyclopedia of United States Supreme Court Reports, Vol. 9: Being a Complete Encyclopedia of All the Case Law of the Federal Supreme Court Up to and Including Volume 206, U. S. Supreme Court Reports (Book 51, Lawyers' Edition)
Where the constitution of Illinois ex pressly conferred upon the governor the power to grant reprieves, commutations and pardons, after conviction, for all Oi fenses, Art. 5, 13, it was held that the governor had authority to commute the punishment of death to imprisonment for life in the penitentiary. Schwab Berg gren, 143 U. S. 442, 451, 36 L. Ed. 218.
It has Often been decided in the states that the governor may grant conditional pardons by commuting the punishment where the governor acted generally, if not uniformly, under special provisions in the constitution or laws of the state, or on the principles of the common law adopted by the state. Ex parte William Wells, 18 How. 307, 318, 15 L. Ed. 421, dissenting Opinion.
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Where the constitution of Illinois ex pressly conferred upon the governor the power to grant reprieves, commutations and pardons, after conviction, for all Oi fenses, Art. 5, 13, it was held that the governor had authority to commute the punishment of death to imprisonment for life in the penitentiary. Schwab Berg gren, 143 U. S. 442, 451, 36 L. Ed. 218.
It has Often been decided in the states that the governor may grant conditional pardons by commuting the punishment where the governor acted generally, if not uniformly, under special provisions in the constitution or laws of the state, or on the principles of the common law adopted by the state. Ex parte William Wells, 18 How. 307, 318, 15 L. Ed. 421, dissenting Opinion.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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