Meanings of executive clemency in английском

He implied when final judgment had been rendered he would grant executive clemency.

He extends executive clemency to a number annually.

When Governor Higgins performed this act of executive clemency, many honest folk in Brooklyn and elsewhere loudly expressed their indignation.

Under the existing order of government, there is no appeal from this decision, except an appeal to arbitrary executive clemency.

Among the innumerable petitioners for executive clemency or favor, none were so graciously received as those who appeared in behalf of soldiers.

The Prison Commission hears applications for pardons and makes recommendations for executive clemency to the Governor, but he may reject their advice.

And they're going to hang another in March if the weather is favorable and executive clemency remains dormant, as I think it will.

In his fourth year of incarceration he wrote to the new president, John F Kennedy, and began the long process of applying for executive clemency.

Executive clemency, used robustly, can make that possible just in time to celebrate Independence Day.

Davis was sent to Johnson's Island for execution, but influences were immediately set at work to secure Executive clemency.