Biden pardoned an 80-year-old woman who admitted to killing her husband who she claimed abused her around the time she was pregnant.
President Joe Biden issued six presidential pardons on Friday, five of whom to people with prior drug convictions and another to a woman who killed her alleged domestic abuser.
Biden has now issued a total of nine presidential pardons in his first two years in office. By comparison, President Donald Trump had issued seven in his first two years, while President Barack Obama had issued nine two years into his presidency.Bill Clinton and George W. Bush had not issued any pardons in their first two years in office.
Of the pardons issued on Friday, the one of Beverly Ann Ibn-Tamas was the only one not drug related. Ibn-Tamas was pregnant at the age of 33 when “her husband beat her, verbally abused her, and threatened her,” the White House said. She was convicted of second-degree murder for killing him.
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