Sentence examples for calls for clemency from inspiring English sources
Despite international calls for clemency, the Abacha government ordered them executed in November 1995.
Mrs. Clinton, whose husband has resisted calls for clemency, said yesterday she would "work on" forming an opinion before the November election.
In the US, a 76-year-old, blind, wheelchair-using multiple killer has been executed after California's governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, rejected calls for clemency.
Notes that their previous publication of the transcript of the ten day trial resulted in calls for clemency by Professor Albert Einstein, Dr. Harold Urey, Professor Stephen Love and others.
North Korea sentenced the journalists to 12 years of hard labor on charges of illegal entry and committing hostile acts, dismissing calls for clemency from the women's families, the United States and other governments.
In addition to calls for clemency coming from across the Israeli political spectrum, Lawrence J. Korb, the assistant secretary of defense at the Pentagon at the time of Mr. Polland's arrest, has said that his punishment was disproportionate to his offense.
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.
As you report, he has served for 28 years, and "a growing number" of former American officials "have called for clemency".
