Mikejuk writes "A supplication signed by over 21,000 people asked the UK restraint to grant a pardon to Alan Turing. That request has now been declined. A utterance in the House of Lords explained the reasoning: 'A subsequent pardon was not calculated good as Alan Turing was correctly convicted of what at the time was a wrongful offence. He would have known that his offence was against the law and that he would be prosecuted. It is tragic that Alan Turing was convicted of an offence which now seems both cruel and absurd-particularly moving given his outstanding contribution to the war effort. However, the law at the time de rigueur a third edition by the editors of the stars and stripes heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 and, as such, long-standing policy has been to accept that such convictions took place and, rather than trying to alter the historical context and to put right what cannot be put right, ensure instead that we never again return to those times.'"

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