[thesumofall]

But isn’t that what the parent says? Fix the underlying laws instead of relying on a single person to randomly overrule the law

[Y-bar]

I don’t think parent commenter says so, he only claims one thing for himself, that pardon power is always a miscarriage of justice. Then he asks another thing of us, which is explicitly excluding himself, indicating that he thinks all laws and all applications of law and justice is fair.

[steve_adams_86]

We will always find ourselves in situations in which our existing laws allow for people to fall through cracks. I can see pardoning as a way to address that partially, yet it doesn’t explain what an adequate judgment would be instead. It’s simultaneously important in niche situations and yet too coarse of a solution.

[roughly]

Fixing the laws takes time.