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Examples of clemency


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If that is rejected, the president can exercise clemency.
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We cannot allow the clemency appeal to be considered in isolation: there must be political pressure to accompany it.
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Our appeal for clemency has been considered carefully in this case.
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Are not those mitigating circumstances that a clemency appeal could consider?
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We have made repeated calls for clemency on humanitarian grounds.
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He also lodged a strong appeal for clemency for others currently under sentence of death.
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I can recall no recent case in which such a strong and unanimous view was expressed across the world in favour of clemency.
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Following an internal review, we have decided to widen our existing criteria for supporting clemency pleas.
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They despise clemency as a sign of weakness.
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Would the newspapers have carried editorials pleading for clemency?
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The extent to which clemency may properly be exercised is a matter for the authorities.
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I am not prepared to recommend any further exercise of clemency in this matter.
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An appeal for clemency is a request to foreign authorities to exercise such leniency as they can under their own legal and constitutional system.
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We must now await the outcome of the men's clemency petitions.
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Our constituents qualify for clemency on each of those criteria.
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The governor in that case has the power to grant clemency once all appeals have been exhausted.
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We focused particularly on support for clemency pleas.
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After very careful consideration and taking all factors into account, we decided not to change our policy on supporting clemency pleas.
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Is there now a reliable expectation of release and are we likely to see a successful plea for clemency?
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One must remember that these short sentences were passed originally with the idea of clemency.
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Could he not exercise his clemency to the extent of releasing the woman, seeing that the husband is undergoing a term of imprisonment?
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Decisions on whether to support an application for clemency are taken at ministerial level.
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The consequences of clemency will be more beneficial to his country than carrying out the strict application of the law.
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Such resolutions of protest only render more difficult the exercise of clemency in suitable cases as they conduce to widespread misapprehension.
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To act from clemency is one thing and to act from a threat of agitation is entirely another.
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Despite all that, the tone of the debate was for clemency.
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I do not know whether it is to be put down to the clemency of the sheriff in that case or not.
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The second, almost inevitable, consequence will be a great increase in what one may call sentimental clemency.
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There is no clemency in keeping people herded together without any charge being made against them.
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He has promised that compassion, mercy and clemency which in his judgment is right in the individual cases brought before him.
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He takes clemency for weakness and difference of opinion for crime.
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When considering whether to make a request for clemency we need to consider whether it will help the individuals concerned.
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In 17 cases, appeals for clemency have been refused.
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Is it a fact that the numbers involved under this proposed act of clemency will be in the neighbourhood of only 2,000 to 3,000?
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I believe that clemency could therefore properly include, for example, the exercise of a power to grant parole.
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There is therefore some element of intelligent clemency.
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We found that we could not discriminate among them, or even prioritise their clemency pleas.
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Our representations may focus on the possibility of clemency or commutation of the sentence, once all legal avenues have been exhausted.
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They have a policy on clemency and involvement in clemency pleas.
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I believe that the overwhelming nature of this case is what prompted all the appeals that have been repeatedly made for clemency.
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The unit helps to implement policy on clemency and fair trials and is also responsible for negotiating prisoner transfer agreements.
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We hope that he will respond to the appeals for clemency.
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The law as it existed would have made no difference between them until the matter of clemency had come into operation.
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He had "taken a nose-dive" and he came and asked for clemency with regard to an allowance.
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I should not be prepared to suggest advising clemency for purely political reasons.
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There is a political and a legal side to clemency.
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The matter has been very carefully looked into, but it would raise very difficult precedents to exercise a special and individual clemency in this case.
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The judicial process in this particular case is, of course, now complete, but there is a procedure for consideration of clemency.
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I have been inundated with letters supporting a plea for clemency.
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Surely it is time to say that there should be clemency.
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The sooner the judiciary is able to review the situation and move towards clemency, the better for everyone concerned.
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The right course, the magnanimous course, the noble course in both cases would be to ignore all that sort of feeling and extend clemency.
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We decided that that was best achieved by the existing guidelines—only supporting clemency pleas when there were certain clear compassionate grounds to do so.
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Whom are they going to propitiate by this clemency and forbearance?
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Nevertheless, whatever the result, we asked for clemency.
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Our immediate task is to make representations to obtain clemency for those sentenced to death.
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He was released as an act of clemency after having served 7½ years, which, allowing for remission for good conduct, isthe equivalent of an 11-year sentence.
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The present situation clearly shows that the exercise of executive clemency is not an automatic operation of the law but involves a social and political judgment.
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We are appealing for these men, not because we want clemency, not because we want generosity, but we are appealing for them on grounds of justice.
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There is no evidence to suggest that their initial trial and their appeal trial were other than fair, and it is open to them to submit an appeal for clemency.
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Such an act of clemency would be a great act of good will and would do much more good than all the harm these men did.
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Juries in the past, and indeed today, not uncommonly recommend that clemency or, alternatively, stringency be exercised in the sentence following the verdict that they have delivered.
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An appeal for clemency can properly be made, but there must be no assumption that those who have been justly judged are perpetually dealt with afterwards, unjustly.
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We are convinced that those efforts are not likely to be any more effective if we accompany the plea for clemency by any kind of threat or menace.
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Now it almost invariably happens at the end of a long and bitter war that the victor is animated by vengeance, and not by clemency, towards his broken foe.
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If the appeal for clemency were successful, it would resolve the destiny of men worn down by captivity and alleviate the anguish felt by their families who wait for them.
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I hope that in his ministerial official capacity he may be able to say something to us this afternoon in favour of clemency in this matter.
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I am not arguing this, but others have said that by a ban we would lose any influence we have on the side of clemency, conciliation and reconstruction.
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I do not suppose any of us could ever really understand the pressure and anxiety of trying to appeal for clemency against a background of such a decision.
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You would have thought that, being of such a race, he might in this connection have extended, as many of his race have done before, clemency to the poor.
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The other is the need for clemency.
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I have no doubt that such power of clemency and reinstatement as may rest with the authorities will be exercised in considering the facts in particular cases.
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We wish clemency to be exercised.
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He petitioned for clemency and was released in 1954.
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The monarchists in command disapproved of this act of clemency but, in time, they did recognize the need for peace in the army.
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As an act of clemency, he declared that they would be allowed to keep their lands in a state of shameful service.
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Successful clemency applications are thought to be even rarer.
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In that post, he was known for his clemency and humanity during sentencing, and his polite and gracious manner.
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Finally, the board also is responsible for issuing recommendations on clemency matters to the governor.
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Vespasian is further presented as being extraordinarily just and with a preference for clemency over revenge.
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The jury finds him guilty, but recommends clemency.
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He also opted not to apply for executive clemency.
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He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in showing clemency.
Let us see which is the more constant, the treachery of others or my clemency.
The protection of business secrets should be safeguarded, as should the effectiveness of clemency programmes, for which guidelines are requested.
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In the light of the changed circumstances my group calls for clemency and for attention to be paid to the human rights aspects of this sad case.
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I feel that the case can be looked at from the point of view of clemency.
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During the year 1951, four of these prisoners submitted petitions for review or clemency.
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In other words they have got to give positive reasons why they should show clemency.
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One of the primary objects of my question was whether there was a political element in the clemency review.
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Is not some clemency called for in those cases?
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Provisions exist for appeal against the tribunal's findings and in due course for a petition for clemency.
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I will deal with the exercise of clemency, such as it was, later.
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Will the consideration which leads to clemency in the case of women also apply to immature youths like those mentioned in my question?
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There has been talk about clemency and an amnesty.
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