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Obama commutes sentences for 46 convicted of drug offenses

By ERIN MCCLAM, NBC News(NBC News) - President Barack Obama on Monday commuted the sentences of 46 people convicted of nonviolent drug crimes.These men and women were not hard criminals, the president said in a video message. Their punishment did not fit the crime.He noted that 14 of them had been sentenced to life.I believe at its heart America is a nation of second chance, and I believe these folks deserve their second chance, he said.The announcement brought the number of commutatio...