He told Vice-Admiral Hans-Erich Voss that he would not entertain the idea of either surrender or escape: " I was the Reich Minister of Propaganda and led the fiercest activity against the Soviet Union, for which they would never pardon me ," Voss quoted him as saying.

In September 996, a few months after receiving a pardon from Otto III, Crescentius II meet with the Archbishop of Piacenza John Philagathos, a former adviser to the late Empress Theophanu, to devise a plan to depose the newly installed Pope Gregory V. In 997, with the active support of Byzantine Emperor Basil II, Crescentius II led a revolt against Gregory V, deposed him, and installed John Philagathos as Pope John XVI, an antipope, in April 997.

Allegations of a secret deal made with Ford, promising a pardon in return for Nixon's resignation, led Ford to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on October 17, 1974.

For the next four years, Patkul led a vagabond life, but in 1698, after vainly petitioning the new king, Charles XII of Sweden, for pardon, he entered the service of Augustus the Strong of Saxony and Poland, with the deliberate intention of wresting Livonia from Sweden, to which he had now no hope of returning so long as that province belonged to the Swedish Crown.

This created a cause célèbre and led to a 45-year-long campaign to win Derek Bentley a posthumous pardon, which was granted partially in 1993, then completely in 1998.

Following the execution there was a public sense of unease about the decision, resulting in a long campaign, mostly led by Bentley's sister Iris, to secure a posthumous pardon for him.

Despite Larner's ruling, Madison Avenue advertising guru George Lois organized a campaign on Carter's behalf, which led to increasing public support for a retrial or pardon.

He was excepted by parliament from pardon in 1648, and after the king's execution he was with Charles II in France and elsewhere until some unfounded accusation which he brought against Edward Hyde, led to his removal from court.

Albizu was pardoned in 1953 by then governor Luis Muñoz Marín but the pardon was revoked the following year after the 1954 nationalist attack of the United States House of Representatives, when four Puerto Rican Nationalists, led by Lolita Lebrón opened fire from the gallery of the Capitol Building in Washington, D. C ..

Ojukwu led the Biafran forces and on the defeat of Biafra in January 1970, and after he had delegated instructions to Philip Effiong he went into exile for 13 years, returning to Nigeria following a pardon.

In Utica, Cato did not participate in the battle and, unwilling to live in a world led by Caesar and refusing even implicitly to grant Caesar the power to pardon him, he committed suicide in April 46 BC.

Sima led an army to Shouchun before Wang could take action, and promised to pardon Wang for rebelling.

When the case was reopened, a forensic linguist found that the frequency and usage of the word " then " in police transcripts suggested the transcripts were not verbatim statements but had been partially authored by police interviewers ; this and other evidence led to Bentley's posthumous pardon.

Following the sentence, Lebrón quickly joined the " Committee for Oscar Collazo's defense ", participating in numerous public manifestations which eventually led to a presidential pardon.

Upon his release ( after being granted a pardon by the new prince Gheorghe Bibescu ), he took part in forming a secret society drawn up from the Freemasonry and named Frăţia (" The Brotherhood "), which he led together with Ion Ghica and Christian Tell ( joined soon after by Gheorghe Magheru ) in resistance against the new Bibescu.

When a royal decree of pardon was not issued, former subjects of Dong Zhuo, Li Jue and Guo Si, led a coup and defeated Lü Bu.

Although his record of reform led historians to laud him as " the father of prison reform in Kentucky ", his liberal pardon record and expenditure of scarce taxpayer money to improve the living conditions of prisoners was unpopular at the time, and he was booed and shouted down at his own party's nominating convention in 1883.

He was also in the forefront of the ' Shot at Dawn ' campaign led in the British House of Commons by Andrew MacKinlay MP and in the House of Lords by Alf Dubs seeking a pardon for over 300 soldiers of World War I ( including 26 Irish servicemen ) shot in questionable circumstances following Field courts-martial.

Amende honorable was originally a mode of punishment in France which required the offender, barefoot and stripped to his shirt, and led into a church or auditory with a torch in his hand and a rope round his neck held by the public executioner, to beg pardon on his knees of his God, his king, and his country ; now used to denote a satisfactory apology or reparation.

This led to Steuart's pardon in November 1866.

The story provoked an international outcry and led to the release and pardon of Dreyfus and court martial of Esterhazy.

Accessed October 23, 2009 .</ ref > After conviction in 1979, the next eight years of his life were spent in prison ; another four were spent on legal proceedings which led to charges being dropped in 1988 and a full pardon in 2002.

This led to the 1980 conviction ( and 1981 pardon by President Ronald W. Reagan ) of FBI Director L. Patrick Gray and Agent Edward S. Miller.

The Governor has the power to grant a pardon to any person concerned in or convicted of an offence, but the Governor can only use this power after consultation with the Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy.

Governor Monroe postponed the slaves ' executions to check their identities ; he granted a pardon to one, and allowed two to hang.

He received a full pardon from Governor John A. Dix six years later.

He asked for a full pardon from Governor Joseph B. Ely.

The Scottsboro Boys had served long prison sentences when the arch segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace, in one of history's ironies, partially mitigated this widely construed injustice ( after the United States Supreme Court had failed to do so twice ) by issuing a pardon in 1976 for the one remaining Scottsboro defendant still subject to the Alabama penal system.

Governor Porter's statement of pardon said, " It is represented to me by highly respected citizens of Lycoming County, that this prosecution was instituted more with a view to the accomplishment of political ends than to serve the cause of law and order.

The pardon was considered to be a follow-through on a purported promise made by then Governor Lew Wallace in 1879.

On December 23, 2003, 37 years after his death, Bruce was granted a posthumous pardon for his obscenity conviction by New York Governor George Pataki, following a petition filed by Ronald Collins and David Skover with Robert Corn-Revere as counsel, the petition having been signed by several stars such as Robin Williams.

In January 2000, Governor Pedro Rosselló granted Echevarría a pardon, which was largely criticized by the people.

By October 26, 1865, Mississippi provisional Governor, William Sharkey, received from President Andrew Johnson a pardon authorizing political office under the Reconstruction plan.

Denied a pardon by Governor Jackson, in 1927 he started talking with reporters of the Indianapolis Times and released a list of elected and other officials in the pay of the Klan.

Rolph received considerable criticism for publicly praising the citizens of San Jose following the November 1933 lynching of the confessed murderers of Brooke Hart, a local department store heir, while promising to pardon anyone involved, thereby earning the nickname, " Governor Lynch ".

When he was found in Brooklyn in 1976, the NAACP and Alabama's attorney urged Governor George Wallace to pardon Norris, which he did in the same year.

Governor Graves had planned to pardon them in 1938, but was angered by their hostility and refusal to admit their guilt ; he refused the pardons.

In 1875, Kirkpatrick contested the Governor General's right to pardon Louis Riel without the consent of the Canadian Cabinet.

In 2007 Governor Tim Kaine gave Gabriel and his followers an informal pardon, in recognition that his cause, " the end of slavery and the furtherance of equality for all people – has prevailed in the light of history.

" It charged that " This investigation was not about a few people here and there who made some mistakes as Governor Ernie Fletcher had claimed ," and lamented that the blanket pardon issued by Fletcher, coupled with Fletcher taking the Fifth, made it " difficult to get to the bottom of the facts of this case .... As a result, grand jury was in part forced to rely on documentary evidence to piece together the facts of the case.

Also, in most criminal decisions Oregon ’ s Governor or the President of the United States may issue a pardon ( some crimes require the Oregon Legislature to concur ).

He spoke with New York Governor William H. Seward and secured his promise to pardon Alexander McLeod, who had seized and burned the Caroline, if he were convicted of a crime in New York.

However, Governor Ray emerged from the crowd and issued a pardon to John Bridge, Jr. when he was on the gallows, with the hood and rope over his head, because of his youth and because he was under the influence of his father and the other men.

Mississippi's state Constitution includes a unique provision that any inmate seeking a pardon from that state's Governor must publish a legal notice of their request for a pardon at least thirty ( 30 ) days before making the request in a newspaper located in or near the county where the inmate seeking the pardon was convicted and sentenced.