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Tennessee's GOP governor is pardoning 43 more people. He stresses it's not like what Biden did

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Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee says he is pardoning 43 people who have served out their sentences.

Lee stresses his actions are “very different” than President Joe Biden ’s recent wave of commutations.

Biden commuted the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison during the coronavirus pandemic.

Lee 's latest clemency moves are nearly double his next highest total for a single year .