Pardons and amnesties and commutations and various nullifications are not violations of the rule of law.

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Both were tried for war crimes and initially sentenced to die by hanging until their commutations in 1948.

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The statistics cited in Romney's ad come from a recent Associated Press examination of Huckabee's record of commutations and pardons.

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