Sentence examples for a request for clemency from inspiring English sources

Appeals and a request for clemency failed.

"Mr Hedges's family have made a request for clemency and the government is studying that request.

He may file a request for clemency under Texas law, which contains specific guidelines for pardons on the ground of innocence.

Mr. Kasi's hopes for a stay of execution ended at 5 this afternoon, when Gov. Mark R. Warner denied a request for clemency.

In 2011, the White House denied a request for clemency from McNair, and it has taken no action on a second clemency request filed this year.

PAGE C1 Mexican Is Denied Clemency Gov. Frank Keating of Oklahoma rejected a request for clemency from a Mexican citizen on death row who was not advised of his right under an international treaty to contact his embassy.

In a letter, JAG officials said that the army was unable to consider any request for clemency in cases involving sentences of 30 years or more until the individual had served at least 10 years.

In a high-profile 14-day trial, Malaysian-born Took Leng How, a vegetable packer at the wholesale centre, was found guilty of murdering her and hanged after an appeal and a request for presidential clemency failed.

Gov. Jeb Bush refused today to allow an early request for clemency of a 14-year-old boy sentenced to life in prison for beating a 6-year-old girl to death.

He did not grant a single request for clemency.

In the letter, which was quoted in part in The Washington Post, Netanyahu wrote, Since Jonathan Pollard has now spent 25 years in prison, I believe that a new request for clemency is highly appropriate.