is there a reason executive branches have pardon power, it seems extremely weird
It's because they oversee all the people and facilities necessary to actually carry out the sentence.
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I can see that as a practical reason but not an explicatory one. like, pardoning could be a form of civil resistance (insofar as that makes sense for an agent of government), but not an annulment/voiding of the sentence
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I guess pardoning would be more like jury nullification and less like a judge overriding a jury on this view
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