Members of a Puerto Rican Terrorist Group
Who pardoned them: Bill Clinton
What they were pardoned for: Conspiracy to commit robbery and bomb-making, and sedition
Why it was controversial: The Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN) carried out over 130 bomb attacks in the United States between 1974 and 1983. In 1999, Clinton pardoned 16 members. None of the members who were pardoned had been convicted in a bombing that injured or killed anyone, and at the time of the pardon, has served nineteen years or more, which was a longer sentence than one typically received for similar convictions. Clinton granted the pardons at the urging of 10 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates; however, many condemned the pardons, including the FBI and victims of FALN terrorist activities.