clemency

Given that clemency boards often look more favorably on applicants who acknowledge their wrongdoing and express remorse, I asked if he’d been tempted to confess.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Rights groups had opposed the clemency, arguing it undermined the rule of law.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

However, she is facing state charges, so the power of clemency would lie with the governor of Massachusetts.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

The California Supreme Court also must review executive clemency actions for inmates with more than one felony charge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

The defendants should receive clemency, he said, otherwise the future of South Africa would be bleak.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

But since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, only 86 individual clemencies have been granted—out of 1,659 executions.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026

The president has issued a number of clemencies during the first year of his second term, many for defendants in criminal cases once touted by federal prosecutors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026

Those clemencies came on top of the commutation awarded last month to George Santos, the disgraced former New York congressman found guilty of defrauding donors and lying to the House of Representatives.

From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2025

A day later, top officials at the agency celebrated several people who have received pardons and clemencies in recent years, characterizing their long sentences for nonviolent drug crimes as harsh and unfair.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2023

Yet there was resentment, too, against Greenleaf's clemencies.

From Kincaid's Battery by Alonzo Kimball