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List of people granted executive clemency by Barack Obama
By the end of his second and final term on January 20, 2017, United States PresidentBarack Obama had exercised his constitutional power to grant the executive clemency—that is, "pardon, commutation of sentence, remission of fine or restitution, and reprieve"[1]—to 1,927 individuals convicted of federal crimes.
Of the acts of clemency, 1,715 were commutations (including 504 life sentences) and 212 were pardons.[2][3] Most individuals granted executive clemency by Obama had been convicted on drug charges,[4] and had received lengthy and sometimes mandatory sentences at the height of the war on drugs.[5]
Until 2024,[6] Obama held the record for the largest single-day use of the clemency power, granting 330 commutations on January 19, 2017, his last full day in office.[7][8] He also issued more commutations than the past 13 presidents combined.&#