Why I’m against posthumous pardons, even for Alan Turing

Pardoning those convicted under laws we now disagree with is an irrational surrender to the emotional tide

From magazine issue: 26 July 2014

Alan Turing and colleagues working on the Ferranti Mark I Computer, 1951 Photo: SSPL/Getty

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