The state-level charges, formally unveiled late on Monday, also cannot be pardoned by Georgia’s governor under the state’s constitution. Instead, the southern US state has an independent board that issues pardons, but such requests can only be made five years after a sentence is served.
And it absolutely should be, it’s a horrendous law that was implemented for racial subjugation, that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy the schadenfreude of watching the traitorous orange get fucked by old racist laws.