How To Use Clemency In A Sentence
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But the real problem with citing thorough court review as a standard for denying clemency is that none of the 152 executions Bush approved would have landed on his desk had the cases not already passed through all the courts.
The Texas Clemency Memos
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The jury passed a verdict of guilty, with an appeal to the judge for clemency.
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The Welsh, I would say, have an often overlooked but damned fine line in dry humour, as is often the case with people from inclement climates, and maybe this is honed even more when you spend so much of your life immersed in that inclemency.
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I asked myself where my mother could be, whether she'd also been able to withstand the poison, her lungs adapt to this solitary inclemency and the dearth of oxygen.
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The president believes that the pardon attorney should have an opportunity to review this case before a decision on clemency is made.
Discourse.net: Pardon Update (Updated)
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Despite his calls for clemency, it's not clear how he plans to keep his promise.
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Had Clemency been with me the flintiest of Roman P's would have relented, for who could resist -- Clemency?
The Amateur Gentleman
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He is trying to raise public awareness about her plight in order to win some state-sanctioned clemency, but it might be too late.
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It wouldn't be such a big deal if Huckabee didn't have one of the highest clemency numbers and one of his previous clemencies resulted in a murder.
HuckPAC coordinator steps down, citing clemency decision
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When the Prison Commission discussed the virtues of parole it invoked ideas of mercy and clemency.
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The jury passed a verdict of guilty, with an appeal to the judge for clemency.
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Our alleged mayor, who had been overseeing PBOT for four years, had a plan for Portland during last December's inclemency: with shovel in hand at a presser during the local paralysis, he told us to clear our own walks.
Dear Fireman Randy (Jack Bog's Blog)
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_On the contrary, _ Seneca says (De Clementia ii, 4) that "the opposite of clemency is cruelty, which is nothing else but hardness of heart in exacting punishment.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Ms. Aris was granted clemency after serving 10 years for killing her abusive husband.
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Clemency to the recently execrated terrorists marked the Convention's response to the Vendémiaire crisis, both in the build-up to the insurrection and in its aftermath.
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Du Mont and Xavier realized that their only hope for clemency lay in their ability to aid the authorities in building up a clear case against Lapierre, and during the ten days of snow-trail that ended at
The Gun-Brand
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Her supporters have lodged a petition of mercy and are hoping the government will use its royal prerogative to grant clemency and release her.
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If the judicial review fails and the president declines to grant clemency, the men in fatigues are waiting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Everyone in the land is slowly coming to respect Gulliver's clemency and kindness.
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French lives for the sole apparent use of giving an Austrian archduke the opportunity "to play at clemency" (de faire de la clemence).
Maximilian in Mexico
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Whereupon Salih arose and, kissing the ground a second time, said, “O King of the Age, my errand is to Allah and the magnanimous liege lord and the valiant lion, the report of whose good qualities the caravans far and near have dispread and whose renown for benefits and beneficence and clemency and graciousness and liberality to all climes and countries hath sped.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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As it is they are continually reproaching me with what they call my mistaken clemency, and there would be no restraining them did they know of this.
Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden
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He would, however, have the right to grant clemency to prisoners on federal death row, which currently houses 29 men.
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When his nerve failed, he sought clemency on the ground that he could help to steer youths away from violence.
Times, Sunday Times
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The mouflon is a large animal; he is fleet as a stag, armed with horns and thick hoofs, covered with coarse hair, and dreads neither the inclemency of the sky nor the voracity of the wolf.
Wilson Armistead, 1819?-1868. A Tribute for the Negro: Being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Colored Portion of Mankind; with Particular Reference to the African Race.
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Personally, I'm opposed to the death penalty, but I can't understand why this person deserves it less than others who don't get clemency.
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It's whether or not the circumstances of the case warrants some clemency, in this case, a commutation, which is rarely granted.
CNN Transcript Feb 26, 2001
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Today, of course, her £6 is in the national coffers, her pleas for clemency unheeded by heartless tax inspectors.
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Captain Bligh: If that's an attempt to earn clemency, I spit on it.
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The weather this week has been unusually terrible and Britons traditionally like nothing better than a spot of extreme inclemency.
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In effect, he argues that indiscriminate clemency for murderers perverts both justice and mercy.
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Defending the Damned
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Johannah was devastated and put into motion a petition for clemency.
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They were granted an order of clemency by the king.
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Those adjudged guilty lost all hope of clemency.
Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State
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Given these numbers it is clear that clemency was marginal to the criminal justice system.
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His clemency had earned him the regard of the West and would, surely, last until Twelfth Night.
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They addressed to the governor a plea for clemency.
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He expanded his mission, compiling a list of women who might be good candidates for clemency.
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Yet his mind still fluctuated between the counsels of clemency and of revenge; the zeal of the bishops had almost extorted from the reluctant emperor the promise of a general pardon; his passion was again inflamed by the flattering suggestions of his minister Rufinus; and, after Theodosius had despatched the messengers of death, he attempted, when it was too late, to prevent the execution of his orders.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Obama's snow-day quip could be seen as a metaphor for the problems facing the country - that people can get out and persevere in inclemency.
1st days give insight into Obama leadership traits
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We were still sitting in our places when the faery troop meandered back to the camp, chased home by the sud-den inclemency.
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He has allegedly asked for clemency from the state, according to the same news report.
Global Voices in English » Vietnam arrests prominent lawyer and writer
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Such clemency reflected the religious and cultural homogeneity of French aristocratic society, ties of kindred and marriage, and respect for fellow knights, not to mention a desire for rich ransom.
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The pattern of pardons indicates that grand larceny, for which twenty-eight women were pardoned, was the one category of offence worthy of clemency.
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All this suggests a very strong case for clemency: on questions of both evidence and process there is too much room for uncertainty.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since, then, clemency "is leniency of a superior in inflicting punishment on an inferior," as Seneca states (De Clementia ii, 3), and vengeance is taken by means of punishment, it would seem that clemency and meekness are the same.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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He should not only grant clemency to Stanley "Tookie" Williams, but he should halt all execution in the state of California, because it is apparent that they are engaging in wrongful conviction and unrightful discrimination ...
CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2005
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Alexander was lame, _pedibus contractus_, from his birth, we are told that after twenty-four years of pain and discomfort -- _vigintiquatuor annis penaliter laborabat_ -- he made a pilgrimage to Canterbury, and there "the sainted Thomas, the divine clemency aiding him, on the second day of the month of May did straightway restore his legs and feet, _bases et plantas_, to the same Alexander.
The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.].
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When I was thirteen years of age, we all went on a party of pleasure to the baths near Thonon: the inclemency of the weather obliged us to remain a day confined to the inn.
Chapter 1
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Like a pardon, a commutation is a form of clemency, granted to the president by the Constitution.
Archive 2007-07-01
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The death row inmate says that he's reformed and his supporters believe he deserves clemency.
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Wherefore Seneca says (De Clementia ii, 3) that "clemency is a certain smoothness of the soul"; for, on the other hand, there would seem to be a certain roughness of soul in one who fears not to pain others.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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He battles to find cause for clemency, defying the political establishment, which wants Cindy executed.
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Nine years later, after having had countless appeals and pleas for clemency rejected, Bleach, 52, is returning home.
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She was granted clemency after killing her violent husband.
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But if Scooter Libby obstructs justice, the president has an un-reviewable, un-checkable power to offer him a pardon or clemency.
Matthew Yglesias » Our Strange Constitution
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What further inclined her to clemency, was that this very evening the crimson-lake tea-gown would shed its effulgence over Mrs. Poppit's bridge-party, and Diva would never want to hear the word "kingfisher" again.
Miss Mapp
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Elliott, who has dual U.S. and British nationality, is hoping for clemency from the Texas Pardons and Paroles Board after an appeal to the U.S.
U.K. Lawmaker Says Texas Inmate Innocent
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It was the duty of the Medical Officer to see that the pilgrims were with sufficient clothing to stand the inclemency of the weather and if they were not then the official directed them to abandon the Yatra.
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ELIZABETH HAGAR: Huckabee Granted Clemency to Woman Convicted of Killing Husband, Hagar Was Freed.
12/05/2007
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Mr Harris had applied for a clemency hearing before the governor, Mr George Deukmejian.
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His bid for clemency failed despite frantic lobbying by his supporters.
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Ms. Aris was granted clemency after serving 10 years for killing her abusive husband.
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Neither compassion nor "mercy," which the Supreme Court as far back as 1855 saw as central to the very idea of clemency, is acknowledged as being of any account.
The Texas Clemency Memos
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The sentence was commuted to imprisonment after a plea for clemency to the King and he resumed his retail career when freed.
Times, Sunday Times
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_On the contrary, _ Seneca says (De Clementia ii, 5): "Every good man is conspicuous for his clemency and meekness.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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In his statement of clemency, he said no need to rehash the findings of the courts over 24 years of litigation that jury decisions that he is guilty of these four murders, should pay for his life.
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Unfortunately, the law is utterly silent on how, why and when this clemency should be exercised.
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Self-constraint and clemency is the principle path to righteousness.
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Wilson rejected a request for clemency that would have given him life without parole.
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When Agrippina decided to show sympathy for Claudius' natural son Britannicus in 55, she sealed his doom, though the poisoning was not overt and could be dissembled, as by Seneca, who wrote praising Nero's clemency in the next year.
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His record indicates, for instance, that he did not see his role as one of mercy, the traditional reason for clemency.
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Du Mont and Xavier realized that their only hope for clemency lay in their ability to aid the authorities in building up a clear case against Lapierre, and during the ten days of snow-trail that ended at
The Gun-Brand
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The jury passed a verdict of guilty, with an appeal to the judge for clemency.
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The death sentences attracted widespread international criticism, and several government leaders made appeals for clemency.
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Members of the clemency board listen mostly in stony silence and decline even to deliberate before their vote.
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He might have discussed it with his staff and opposed clemency for the fugitive businessman.
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L.. Douglas Wilder, ruling the punishment did not fit the crime, granted Iverson conditional clemency and freed him.
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‘Unless there are the most extenuating circumstances, a person convicted of murder can expect no clemency until he or she has served an extremely lengthy sentence,’ Mr Holmes said.
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The turkey seeking clemency on Thanksgiving may soon be HP itself.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was granted clemency after killing her violent husband.
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Frenchwomen Ask Clemency for an Infanticide.
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It's a proud tradition, as you know, of executive clemency that began with President Harry Truman.
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The jury passed a verdict of guilty, with an appeal to the judge for clemency.
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But clemency is a political act, not a judicial one.
The Texas Clemency Memos
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Enraged at this contempt of what he called his clemency, at Haarlem, Alva resolved to make Alkmaar an example of his cruelty, and he wrote to Philip that everyone in it should be put to the sword.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
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Read in its entirety the memorial is no petition for clemency or mercy but makes out a clear and emphatic case on the basis of legal rights and constitutional practices and principles.
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The condemned man petitioned me governor for clemency.
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These blocks are, however, of sand-stone, and their fractures are the result of the inclemency of the weather.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests
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I have it in my hand right now from the governor's office, as to why clemency was denied.
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L.. Douglas Wilder, ruling the punishment did not fit the crime, granted Iverson conditional clemency and freed him.
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The president can stop executions by granting executive clemency or a commutation of the sentence.
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Constantinople by the prudence, rather than clemency, of Justinian; and he commanded Dagisteus, with seven thousand Romans, and one thousand of the Zani, * to expel the Persians from the coast of the Euxine.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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We marched [30 Oct.] to Madrid, or rather its suburbs, where the poor inhabitants were in indescribable distress, seeing that they were again to be abandoned to French clemency and contributions.
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
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In effect, he argues that indiscriminate clemency for murderers perverts both justice and mercy.
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He supplicated the King for clemency
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Here then I retreated, and lay down happy to have found a shelter, however miserable, from the inclemency of the season, and still more from the barbarity of man.
Chapter 11
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The sentence was commuted to imprisonment after a plea for clemency to the King and he resumed his retail career when freed.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are islands in Antarctica and parts of northern Canada that are uninhabitable due to the inclemency of the weather.
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Another member of the clemency board, Alex Sink, the state's chief financial officer, said it was not the job of the clemency board to "retry" his case.
NYT > Home Page
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In it she told me that she and my aunt were only just recovering from bad colds, and on account of the inclemency of the weather thought it unwise to come to town to meet me; but Frank Hawden, the jackeroo would take every care of me, settle the hotel bill, and tip the coach-driver.
My Brilliant Career
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Nearly forty persons were massacred by the troops, and several who fled to the mountains perished by famine and the inclemency of the season.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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He enrolled in a private school but as a condition of his clemency was not permitted to participate in athletics.
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If both keep silent, both go free; the one who peaches gets clemency, the one who does not gets the shaft.
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When matters were at this crifis, Katte, in the moft pathetic terms implored the royal clemency, and had his folicitations well fupported by the intcroft of mnny pcrfons of diftin£\ioii: but all was without cffefl} the icing ordered him to be be - headed, and this fcvcre fentencc was accordingly put in execution.
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In general, convicts can file for clemency as many times as they want, but they have to wait a year or two between applications.
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For clemency, in mitigating punishment, "is guided by reason," according to Seneca (De Clementia ii, 5), and meekness, likewise, moderates anger according to right reason, as stated in _Ethic. _ iv, 5.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Do you believe that the use of prosecutorial discretion, jury nullification, the necessity defense, executive clemency and any other mechanisms that are available to obviate or circumvent criminal statutes is unethical in all cases, without exception? and, uh, things like executive clemency are all firmly within the law.
Matthew Yglesias » Conservatives’ Unhinged Attacks on Nancy Pelosi
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He was freed on Friday after being granted royal clemency and immediately announced that he had been forced into confessing to the bombings.
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Given such resolute inclemency, Cassandra decided her weary limbs could do with a rest and took a well-earned break from the cottage.
The Forgotten Garden
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Thonon: the inclemency of the weather obliged us to remain a day confined to the inn.
Chapter 2
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Seventeen prisoners held on death row are to be executed after their pleas for clemency were turned down.
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Granting clemency is not undermining the rule of law.
Think Progress » Hume Still Pushing “Definition” Of Torture Rejected By Administration A Year Ago
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Those adjudged guilty lost all hope of clemency.
Ambassadors: From Ancient Greece to the Nation State
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If he chose to confess, there might be some undeveloped reasons for clemency.
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The moment had arrived when it was thought that the mask and cothurn might again be assumed with effect; when a grave and conventional personage might decorously make his appearance to perform an interlude of clemency and moderation with satisfactory results.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
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I chose not to point out the negligible cost of such an economic crime to them, but continued to grovel for clemency.
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It said Nguyen's appeals for clemency were carefully considered.
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McVeigh had one month after his execution date was set to file a clemency petition.