16 example sentences using clemency.
Clemency used in a sentence
Clemency in a sentence as a noun
Snowden should not be given clemency of any kind.
Final appeals to the courts and to the governor for clemency.
This might've worked if they'd offered him full clemency the same day the leaks started coming out.
The content of his disclosure is not relevant to clemency.
But clemency returned after each of two daily breaks, during which the judges retired for food.
What is Snowden's plan if he isn't granted clemency/pardon by the US and his asylum by Russia ins't renewed?
They accuse him of running TPB load balancer which he claims he has never seen or logged in to..He deserves clemency.
I would like to see clemency for this man but I don't view the european system as being necessarily superior to the USA.
Torturers are given clemency, but Snowden is wanted for esponiage.
[1] There is a lot of sympathy for Manning about the way he was treated, which may or may not be a good case for clemency in the next administration.
Even if Snowden was granted clemency, ten bucks says that if he returns to the US, he'll be found mysteriously dead of a car crash or "*******" within 18 months.
A Texas appellate judge has called the clemency system “a legal fiction.” Reaves said of the board members, “They never asked me to attend a hearing or answer any questions.”"
The most we could expect is a token piece of legislation that promises oversight, but will have stealth provisions that end up making everything worse, or provide clemency for the NSA's various crimes.
Reaves told him that the fifteen members of the Board of Pardons and Paroles, which reviews an application for clemency and had been sent Hurst’s report, had made their decision.“What is it?” Willingham asked.“I’m sorry,” Reaves said.
Bad loans and fiscal irresponsibility was very definitely a key factor in how Germany managed to get into that position - yet Germany was granted clemency and 50%+ of its debt was relieved.
The board members did not even have to review Willingham’s materials, and usually don’t debate a case in person; rather, they cast their votes by fax—a process that has become known as “death by fax.” Between 1976 and 2004, when Willingham filed his petition, the State of Texas had approved only one application for clemency from a prisoner on death row.
Clemency definitions
good weather with comfortable temperatures
See also: mildness
leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice; "he threw himself on the mercy of the court"
See also: mercifulness mercy