People Ex Rel. Madigan v. Snyder

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that a governor's pardoning power is limited only by his conscience and that his pardon may be absolute or imposed with conditions
• upholding the Illinois governor’s authority to commute a death sentence to life regardless of the pendency of a resentencing hearing
• upholding the Illinois governor’s authority to commute a death sentence to life regardless of the pendency of a resentencing hearing
• denying writ of mandamus challenging then-Governor’s grant of blanket clemency to over 160 inmates who had been sentenced to death
• noting that the governor’s pardoning power is essentially unreviewable
• rejecting state’s petition for writ of mandamus, and listing Watford as a respondent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).