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Show SIXTT-8HE II FREEDJBflM Pfl This Is Record of Board of Pardons Par-dons for the Past Two Years. FORTT-TWO ARE PARDONED AND NINETEEN PAROLED In Addition, Seventeen Prisoners Prison-ers Had Their Sentences Commuted. Leniency was a strong characteristic of the hoard of pardons for 1007 and 100S. judging from that body's biennial report prepared by Governor John C. Cutler, ex-ofi'icio chairman, Tuesday, to submit to tho coming legislature. Forty-two pardons wero granted in tho biennium. tho report s;iys. Ninoteon prisoners woro released on pnrolo and thero wore sovenloon commutations of sentences. Two paroled prisoners wore romnnded to prison for violatiup thoir parole. Twentv of tho pnrdons wero granted in 3907 and twenty-two in 190S. Ton of the paroles wore granted in the former and nino in tho latter year. Nino of the sentences woro commuted in 1007 and eight in JfJOS. Tho total number of pardons and paroles pa-roles granted and sentences commur.od in tho two years is seven ty-oight, thirty-nine each year. Among the commutations commu-tations of sentence was that of Albert Day, a negro, sentenced to death for first-degree murder, whoso sontenco was commuted to life imprisonment. |