Sorry to burst your bubble, but the Pennsylvania constitution requires that the Board of Pardons (a 5 member board that meets every so often at the state Capitol in Harrisburg) approve a RECOMMENDATION for a pardon (3/5 for regular pardon and 5/5 for commutation of life sentence) before the governor can approve the pardon. These applications must be made by the individual.

I was at a board of pardons meeting in 2019. On the board were LT Gov Fetterman, AG Shapiro, and three others that I could not remember their names And left my notebook from that day back home and I’m at college right now. But anyway, a bunch of people serving life made their cases (via their representatives) for why they deserve to be released early. Some were granted, most were not. And unlike what the PA GOP would want you to believe, LT Gov Fetterman voted no on a bunch (some of them, from the case made and testimony given definitely deserve a second chance like the woman who drove her friend to a drug deal gone wrong, she got denied by 2 votes, LT GOV Fetterman voted yes, while some don’t deserve to be free ever again like the man who murdered another man in cold blood over a dispute and tossed his body into the River, he got denied unanimously)