Oh look, the crypt keeper IS actually capable of using executive power for the rare good action. Do prisoners who had drug charges similar to Hunter’s get released? No no, that’s just for nepo babies. But at least he’ll gesture at amnesty to pretend he’s not nakedly abusing that power for it’s own sake.
The usual practice is to pardon a handful of people to improve the optics of pardoning cronies and rich campaign donors. They call them “packing peanuts”, the people they pardon to protect the ones they really wanted to give them to.