Spoilers for Netflix's Making a Murderer ahead.
The White House has responded to a petition calling for the imprisoned subject of Netflix's Making a Murderer documentary series, Steven Avery, to gain a presidential pardon.
The 170,000-plus signature strong petition called for President Obama to free Avery, who was convicted for the murder of Teresa Halbach back in 2007. Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey were the central focus of the popular Netflix series, which posed a lot of troubling questions around the nature of their convictions.
“Thank you for signing a We the People petition on the Teresa Halbach murder case, currently featured on the Making a Murderer documentary series,” reads the statement from the White House. It then goes on to explain that President Obama cannot pardon state prisoners.
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The White House has responded to a petition calling for the imprisoned subject of Netflix's Making a Murderer documentary series, Steven Avery, to gain a presidential pardon.
The 170,000-plus signature strong petition called for President Obama to free Avery, who was convicted for the murder of Teresa Halbach back in 2007. Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey were the central focus of the popular Netflix series, which posed a lot of troubling questions around the nature of their convictions.
“Thank you for signing a We the People petition on the Teresa Halbach murder case, currently featured on the Making a Murderer documentary series,” reads the statement from the White House. It then goes on to explain that President Obama cannot pardon state prisoners.
Continue reading…
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