Commutations are an exercise of the Presiden’s constitutional pardon power. Are you quibbling over whether commutation is textually a “Reprieve” or a “Pardon”?
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The Supreme Court has held that commutations of death sentences to life imprisonment are conditional pardons.see Ex parte Wells (1855); Schrick breed (1974)
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