White House Responds to ‘Making a Murderer’ Petition
Following the release of the 10-episode Netflix documentary Making a Murderer, a petition sprouted up on Change.org calling for the official pardon of the series’ subject, Steven Avery. Serving a life sentence since 2007 for murdering a woman in 2005, Avery has had his guiltiness put into question by the doc.
After the petition received over 300,000 signatures, the White House responded, with a note pointing out that Avery’s crime is not a federal one. Therefore, President Obama does not have the authority to issue a pardon:
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