Sentence examples for applications for pardons from inspiring English sources

If the administration doesn't aggressively process applications for pardons, some older inmates could die behind bars under Trump.

Mr. Gregory said his and his wife's applications for pardons had languished for nearly 18 months at the Justice Department.

The Justice Department is usually given the chance to review applications for pardons, a department spokeswoman said, but the president has absolute authority to grant them.

In the last three months of Mr. Clinton's presidency, the Justice Department said it received more than 1,000 applications for pardons and commutations, the most ever received in a three-month period.

But over the last two months the president has quietly denied roughly 1,000 applications for pardons and commutations, clearing nearly a third of the backlog from the previous administration.

In a speech before the Arkansas Legislature on Jan . 17on his final trip as president, Bill Clinton described his amazement at the last-minute avalanche of applications for pardons and prison-sentence commutations.

Mr. Sabree's application for pardon was denied.

A court hearing will be held on Friday to formally approve the application for pardon.

He also denied 1,019 applications for a pardon and 3,793 applications for commutation.

Ms. Rich, who had initially been reluctant to support her former husband's application for a pardon because of their bitter divorce, played a crucial role in the pardon campaign, first sending President Clinton an emotional letter on the issue and then buttonholing him at a White House dinner on Dec. 20.

A20 Questions About Late Pardons Almost two dozen people -- many with financial or personal connections to the Clinton White House -- had their applications for a presidential pardon moved to the front of the line in the final hours of the administration.