President Biden Friday pardoned five people convicted of drug- or alcohol-related offenses and one woman who murdered her allegedly abusive husband. All who were pardoned had completed their sentences, and many of them were served decades ago. Those pardoned have built careers and been personally involved with community service since serving their sentences.

Biden pardoned Gary Park Davis, a 66-year-old man who was convicted of facilitating a cocaine transaction when he was 22 years old. Edward Lincoln De Coito III, who is 50 years old, was pardoned for his crime of conspiring to traffic marijuana at 23. Vincente Ray Flores, a 37-year-old man, was pardoned for ingesting ecstasy and alcohol while serving in the military. Charlie Burnes Jackson, a 77-year-old man, was pardoned for his one count of possession and sale of distilled spirits without tax stamps. John Dix Nock II, a 72-year-old man, was pardoned for his crime of renting out a space for the purpose of growing marijuana plants. Finally, Beverly Ann Ibn-Tamas was pardoned for the second-degree murder of her allegedly abusive husband when she was 33.

This is the third time that Biden has used his clemency power. Biden previously pardoned three people in April and stated that “America must offer meaningful opportunities for redemption and rehabilitation to empower those who have been incarcerated to become productive, law-abiding, members of society.”  Out of the nine named individuals that Biden has pardoned thus far in his term, seven have been convicted of drug- or alcohol-related offenses. Biden also pardoned thousands of people in October who had federal offenses of simple marijuana possession.