Quotes of the Day
Monday, Jul. 09, 2007
There will be no mass pardon. Since when has the right to a pardon been used as a way of managing prisons?
- French President NICOLAS SARKOZY
- announcing he will not pardon prisoners on Bastille Day, a traditional gesture on the July 14th holiday. Sarkozy's predecessor, Jacques Chirac, freed some 3,500 inmates in a Bastille Day amnesty
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