#to amnesty

• To amnesty — To grant amnesty; to clear, through an official legal act or a legislative decree, the criminal liability, legal consequences, and penalties applied to persons who committed certain offenses. In an extended structural sense, the term reflects a collective or individual pardon granted by the supreme authority of a state, symbolically erasing guilt for political or social reconciliation.
• To amnesty — To grant amnesty to a person or a group of persons; to remove through a legal act of the legislative power the criminal liability for a committed offense, the consequences of the conviction, or the execution of the sentence. This public act of clemency symbolically and legally erases the criminal record for the targeted acts, restoring the person's prior rights.