Gov. Walker considers Fairbanks 4 pardon

Alaska’s governor is considering granting pardons to four men accused in the 1997 death of a teenager, the first time a pardon would be issued in nearly a decade.
Alaska’s executive clemency process has not been used since the law was changed eight years ago in response to a controversial pardon by then-Gov. Frank Murkowski.
Under state law, Alaska governors are authorized to grant pardons, reprieves and commutations of sentences.
The law that was signed by Murkowski’s predeces