Bush pardons border agents
January 19, 2009Subscribe to: RSS, Email
George Bush, on his last full day as U.S. president, Monday commuted sentences of two Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a drug-smuggling suspect.
Bush also faced pressure to issue blanket pardons to interrogators accused of torturing terror suspects, Politico reported Monday.
The commutation means the convictions of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean remain, but they will be released this year instead of serving their 11-year and 12-year sentences, respectively, the U.S. Justice Department said in a news release.
The agents were convicted of wounding Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila in the buttocks in February 2005 as he allegedly ran from a truck containing 743 pounds of marijuana near Fabens, Texas. Prosecutors argued that the agents shot an unarmed and fleeing suspect and then failed to report they fired their weapons.
Monday, January 19, 2009
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