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Amnesty (from the Greek ''amnestia'', oblivion) is an act of justice by which the supreme power in a state restores those who may have been guilty of any offence against it to the position of innocent persons. It includes more than Pardon , in as much as it obliterates all legal remembrance of the offence. Amnesties, which, in the 's amnesty of March 13 , 1815 from which thirteen eminent persons, including Talleyrand , were excempt; the Prussia n amnesty of August 10 , 1840 ; the general amnesty proclaimed by the emperor Franz Josef I Of Austria in 1857 ; the general amnesty granted by President Of The United States , Andrew Johnson , after the American Civil War ( 1861 - April 9 , 1865 ), in 1868 , and the French amnesty of 1905 . The last act of amnesty passed in Great Britain was that of 1747 , which pardonned those who had taken part in the 1745 Jacobite Rising . The biggest acts of amnesty in the history United States was granted on June 29 , 1972 ( Furman Vs. Georgia ) when over 950 death row inmates (including Charles Manson ) got their death sentences commuted to life in prison and the 1986 amnesty of illegal aliens pursuant to the Immigration Reform and Control Act that year that legalized over 2,700,000 aliens who either were illegal aliens or didn't qualify for legitimate visas. RELATED USES OF THE TERM
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