With Pilar Llop at the head of the Ministry of Justice, since July 2021 the rate of granting pardons by the Executive has slowed, but tradition weighs heavily and, on the occasion of Easter, six prisoners have been pardoned this year at the proposal of various brotherhoods.
The Council of Ministers approved this Tuesday, at the request of Justice, two new special pardons on the occasion of Easter, bringing the total to six after the four granted last week. The Official State Gazette (BOE) published this Wednesday the royal decrees by which the measure of grace was applied to these last two people, considering that "reasons of justice and equity concur."
Traditionally, the brotherhoods request this measure of grace for those inmates within their province who meet the requirements of any ordinary pardon.
The person pardoned from Mieres was sentenced to a twelve-month fine by the Court of First Instance and Instruction number 3 of Mieres as the perpetrator of a crime against road safety for acts committed in 2019. The BOE indicates that the reports of the The sentencing court and the Public Prosecutor's Office, considering that, taking into account the circumstances of the convicted person and according to the information in the file, there are reasons of "justice and equity" for his pardon, requested by the Brotherhood of Jesús Cautivo de Oviedo.
As usual, the pardoned paraded through the Holy Thursday procession with the Brotherhood after the rite of pardon in the Plaza de Porlier (Oviedo).
Antonio D.M. He was sentenced by the Provincial Court of Malaga in September 2021 to three years in prison for a crime of drug trafficking and the payment of a fine of one thousand euros.
The El Rico de Málaga brotherhood complied with tradition this Holy Wednesday and "released" the prisoner, after the pardon granted by the Government. The "liberation", one of the most emblematic episodes of Holy Week in Malaga, has taken place in a massive act that is held in the Plaza del Obispo, at the doors of the cathedral. Tradition commands the parade of the thrones of the Virgin and Jesús El Rico, who have processed through the streets of the city center together with the pardoned person, who is hooded, carrying a candle and signing his freedom certificate.
A few days ago, the released man was "happy" to be able to be back "with the family, continue working and change his life", and he recognized that the news of his pardon and release was a "surprise" that he lived "with a lot of nerves ". "I am very happy for this opportunity," he assured.
The Brotherhood of Nuestra Señora de la Soledad y del Descendimiento del Señor releases this Good Friday a man convicted by the Criminal Court number 4 of Granada, in a sentence of February 2, 2021, as the author of a crime against industrial property, who was pardoned by the Council of Ministers last week.
According to tradition, the prisoner is escorted in the procession by two brothers from Soledad, and together with a third who carries a cushion with the pardon resolution, which they sign, before the procession leaves the monastery of San Jerónimo, representatives of the Court of Granada, the Archbishopric, the Royal Federation of Brotherhoods and Brotherhoods, the Government Sub-delegation and the City Council, as well as the Army Training and Doctrine Command, on behalf of King Felipe VI.
Teresa G. was sentenced by the Criminal Court number 2 of Salamanca to one year in prison for the crime of robbery with force committed in 2017 and the BOE published on March 29 her pardon for "reasons of justice and equity" at the proposal of the Minister of Justice, and after deliberation by the Council of Ministers at its meeting the day before.
The Executive pardoned her from her custodial sentence on the condition that she not commit a crime again within a year from the publication of the royal decree.
The pardoned Adrián Q. was sentenced by the Criminal Court number 1 of León for the crime of robbery with force against things, to one year and six months in prison for acts committed in 2016. In his In this case, the pardon comes on the condition that they do not commit a crime again within two years from the publication of the royal decree, as stated in the BOE publication of March 29.
The last pardon is about a man who was sentenced by the Court of First Instance and Instruction number 1 of Quintanar de la Orden (Toledo) to a 30-day fine of 8 euros a day (240 euros in total) for a crime slight of scam
His case is not strictly a request from any brotherhood on the occasion of Holy Week, but it does fall within this period. In addition, the sentence of this convict is a fine.
According to an investigation published by Civio, the Government grants one in ten pardons requested by the brotherhoods. These six pardons are added to the other five granted so far in 2023. Four from the Ministry of Justice, approved just two weeks ago and one that Defense granted in February. In 2022, 18 were granted, a notably lower figure compared to the 50 of the previous year.
