Sentence examples for call for clemency from inspiring English sources
To call for clemency in Troy Davis's case, please add your name to the petition on Amnesty's website, here.
The voice that mattered most was the prosaic one of the Texas parole board, which on February 2nd had overwhelmingly rejected Ms Tucker's call for clemency.
Although both men asked her during the hour-and-a-half meeting to call for clemency for Mr. Pollard, it was not until the next day that they received word of Mr. Pollard's impending transfer.
The US did not join in the call for clemency for Aziz although some senior officials in the Obama administration are thought to believe that hanging him would needlessly antagonise sections of the community, when he is unlikely ever to be freed.
On its leader page, the paper offers the following thoughts: "No matter how repulsive the crime, some handwringing do gooder will always call for clemency... in today's forgive and forget penal wonderland, who would bet the Ripper isn't footloose and fancy free within the next couple of years?" The Sun: Yorkshire ripper set to be freed from Broadmoor.
The second is from the Russian state news agency Novosti's live blog who report a call for clemency from the Russian Orthodox church: The Russian Orthodox Church called the verdict justified in a statement on Friday, but said it asks the authorities to pardon the Pussy Riot members.
Despite international calls for clemency, the Abacha government ordered them executed in November 1995.
The news comes despite a shower of fresh appeals from around the world calling for clemency from the Indonesian president.
15 September – A petition with 663,000 signatures is delivered to the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles calling for clemency.
