“NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT KNOWN that I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, pursuant to my powers under Article II, Section 2, clause I, of the Constitution, and in consideration of the premises, divers other good and sufficient reasons me thereunto moving, do hereby commute the aforesaid total prison sentence of the said GERARDO HERNANDEZ to expire on December 17, 2014…
… Done at the City of Washington this 15th day of December in the year of our Lord Two thousand and fourteen and of the Independence of the United States the Two hundred and thirty-ninth.”
BARACK OBAMA
President
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