The Case of Petrich Escobar: Responsibility for the Pardon Lies with the One Whose Signature Is Under the Decree

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Responsibility for the pardon lies with the one whose signature is under the decree, but the act itself represents a supreme mercy, not a revision of the court decision. This was stated by the lecturer and former constitutional judge Prof. Plamen Kirov regarding the case of "Petrich's Escobar" in the studio of "Denyat ON AIR". According to him, the decision to pardon was made after opinions of a medical commission and the Pardons Commission, bot…