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Governor Charlie Crist's Clemency Board Notes on the Restoration of Felon Civil Rights, 2007

(From: Wiggins, Daniel H., Diaries 1816-1834, 1838-1841, 1862, Collection M89-32)

Page 2 of Governor Charlie Crist’s Clemency Board Speech Notes on the Restoration of Felon Civil Rights, 2007

Page 2 of Governor Charlie Crist's Clemency Board Notes on the Restoration of Felon Civil Rights, 2007

- Those whose lives we discuss today have served a sentence, as they should have; but what right have we here to add to that sentence.

- Redemption - Forgiveness - Grace

- I call for Redemption!

God given inalienable rights from our Creator - once the debt is paid we must again honor their rights - and thereby honor him

-"We should not confuse punishment with revenge"

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