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Presidential pardons (also known as a shadow asylum ("Day 2: 12:00pm-1:00pm")) exempt a person from any legal penalties or liabilities that would normally result from criminal acts. This immunity has been proposed and occasionally traded to terrorists or collaborators in exchange for very time-sensitive intelligence to fulfill such government goals as the capture of a weapon of mass destruction. Many of these such pardons were conditional upon the success of the subsequent government action. Other pardons, such as the one granted to Tony Almeida, were given despite his criminal action on account of mitigating circumstances.

Successful pardons Edit

Nina MyersEdit

Immunity and a full pardon were given to Nina Myers during Day 2 when she agreed to help Jack Bauer find a nuclear bomb.

Later in the day, Myers had Bauer at gunpoint and demanded a pardon for his murder. Bauer urged President David Palmer to agree to the pardon but he soon realized that until the pardon came through, she could not kill him without being taken down herself. With this information he walked away from Myers, who could do nothing about it.

When she had finished helping CTU, Myers was released.

Tony Almeida Edit

Between Day 3 and Day 4, Tony Almeida was convicted of treason for aiding the terrorist Stephen Saunders when Saunders had Tony's wife Michelle Dessler hostage. Before leaving office, President David Palmer granted Tony a presidential pardon, apparently following a request by their mutual friend Jack Bauer.

Lee Jong Edit

When Lee Jong was abducted by Jack Bauer from the Chinese consulate, he refused to speak unless granted a pardon and safe transportation to a place of his choosing. Former President David Palmer, who had authorized the abduction, got the documents signed by Charles Logan. After Lee's gunshot wound was treated and he was stabilized, he revealed CTU's next lead: the location of the factory which Habib Marwan was using as his next base of operations.

MandyEdit

When she was captured at the end of Day 4, Mandy was offered a full pardon (for all crimes, present and past) in exchange for revealing Habib Marwan's location.

One complication was former President David Palmer, who was assisting President Charles Logan during the crisis. Mandy was the assassin who almost killed him at the end of Day 2, and she would be pardoned for that crime as well. Palmer nevertheless advised to go ahead with the deal, considering the gravity of Marwan's attack on Los Angeles with a nuclear weapon. After Mandy's lawyer, Todd Richards, assured her everything was in order, she gave up the location — the Global Center — where CTU successfully acquired evidence and stopped the missile strike.

Charles LoganEdit

Charles Logan was pardoned by President Noah Daniels sometime after Day 6 for his involvement in the Sentox nerve gas conspiracy, ending his house arrest.

Voided and interrupted pardons Edit

On several occasions, pardons were drawn up for persons who were killed before they could benefit from the arrangement. In other cases, the conditional pardons granted for others were voided because the essential condition of the arrangement was not met. And, in the instances of Collette Stenger and Greg Seaton, their pardons were nullified when it was revealed by the government that they deliberately gave false information.

Behrooz and Dina ArazEdit

Dina and Behrooz Araz were granted immunity during Day 4 in return for help finding Habib Marwan. Dina was shot by her husband and Behrooz was forced to go and get medical aid. While he was gone, CTU captured Dina and offered her and her son's freedom if she helped them.

Behrooz was captured by his father and held hostage. Dina threatened to end their agreement if CTU did not rescue her son. She said that she believed in their cause but was doing what was right for her son. When Dina helped in an undercover operation against Joseph Fayed, as part of the pardon, her cover was blown and she was killed.

Behrooz disappeared after he was traded for Jack Bauer in an attempt to distract CTU from learning of the death of the Air Force pilot killed to give Mitch Anderson access to a stealth fighter.

Jacob RosslerEdit

On Day 5, Rossler was supposed to set up a meeting with Ivan Erwich to arm 20 nerve gas canisters, but CTU got to Rossler first. In exchange for his help in locating and capturing Ivan Erwich, Rossler demanded immunity for all his crimes, the return of all of his money, transport to a foreign country of his choice, and his 15-year-old sex slave Inessa Kovalevsky. Lynn McGill agreed to the terms, but Inessa shot Rossler before he had a chance to collect.

Collette StengerEdit

During Day 5, Collette Stenger was granted immunity for promising to reveal the source of the blueprints to CTU. However, she lost her immunity when Bauer discovered she had lied about her source in an attempt to get Jack off the trail.

Hamri Al-AssadEdit

After it was discovered that Hamri al-Assad wished to renounce terrorism and bring his organization to participate in peaceful negotiations, he was pardoned by President Wayne Palmer in exchange for his assistance in tracking down Abu Fayed, who framed Assad for being responsible for numerous terrorist attacks around the country. The pardon angered Curtis Manning who threatened to kill Assad, but who was shot by Jack Bauer to prevent him from doing so. Shortly before Assad was planned to appear in an important television address with President Palmer, he foiled an assassination attempt on the President at the cost of his own life.

Greg SeatonEdit

Greg Seaton promised to reveal the location of the prion variant bioweapon engineered by Jonas Hodges to the FBI in return for full immunity. Even after receiving the pardon, which was electronically signed by President Taylor, Seaton remained loyal to Hodges and gave them a false location on the other side of the Starkwood compound in order to buy some time. Larry Moss, his FBI team, Tony Almeida, and the accompanying Navy SEALs were then surrounded and outnumbered by Stokes and other heavily-armed Starkwood mercenaries.

Sergei BazhaevEdit

Sergei Bazhaev negotiated with Jack Bauer and achieved full immunity for himself and his son, Josef Bazhaev, in exchange for Sergei revealing where the nuclear rods were being held. However, the situation became complicated when Josef stole the rods to complete the deal with Farhad Hassan in order to get revenge on Sergei for killing Oleg Bazhaev. Jack and Sergei called Josef, who eventually agreed to bring the rods in. However, while still on the line, Josef was shot by Samir Mehran, who had been watching him through a sniper rifle. Because Farhad and Samir obtained the rods, Sergei Bazhaev's immunity was revoked.

Dana Walsh Edit

Dana Walsh, a Russian mole planted by Mikhail Novakovich and working for Samir Mehran within CTU New York, was discovered to be aiding the terrorists by Chloe O'Brian. Dana was put in custody and questioned, but she refused to divulge any information without a full pardon, as well as "compensation" for the money she would not receive for completing the job for Samir.

Reluctantly, President Allison Taylor agreed to sign the immunity agreement, and Dana told Jack and CTU everything she knew about Samir and his plans. However, she was too late as Omar Hassan was already dead when they arrived to save him. Since the pardon was based on the condition that her intelligence would result in the safe return of Hassan, the arrangement was revoked.

Discussed pardons Edit

Patrick KellyEdit

On Day 3, Sherry Palmer contacted Kevin Kelly and asked him to come forward with information about Alan Milliken. In exchange for airing the story of his daughter's death at Milliken's hands, Kelly asked for a presidential pardon for his son Patrick, who was on death row. However, Kelly disappeared under suspicious circumstances before Sherry had a chance to set up the pardon.

Chris WhitleyEdit

After confessing his findings on the funds embezzled ordered by boss Mr. Nichols, Chris Whitley asked his friend, the First Son Roger Taylor, if his mother, President-elect Allison Taylor could grant him a pardon with his participation in laundering money for someone in the terrorist watch list. Before this could proceed, Whitley was murdered by John Quinn and Halcott for Jonas Hodges.

Ryan BurnettEdit

When it was revealed that Ryan Burnett had information about General Benjamin Juma's attack somewhere in Washington, DC, Jack Bauer tortured him to find out what the target was. However, he was stopped and arrested for it. President Allison Taylor then questioned Burnett about the attack and offered him immunity in exchange for information, but he refused it.

Background information and notesEdit

While no formal offer was made, President Taylor was willing to pardon Jack Bauer if Blaine Mayer refused to release Jack from testifying at Mayer's Senate hearings during Day 7.
In order to release his wife Chloe through immunity, Morris O'Brian helped the FBI track the whereabouts of Jack during Day 7.