In her petition to Obama for clemency, Manning pointed out that, as of January, she had already served a longer sentence than any other whistleblower in American history and expressed remorse for her actions.
In this version, Tito does not survive the assassination attempt; he spends Act II in a hospital bed, and issues clemency at the point of death.
In the words of Cornelius Nepos, John Fine points to the clemency shown by Thrasybulus and other democrats in the wake of their victory over the Thirty as a key contribution towards reestablishing stable government in Athens.
The judge pointed to the clemency application of Steven Warner, a white ex-con who cast an illegal ballot in Florida's 2010 election.
But he pointed out that the clemency board spent seven hours handling other cases.
The Prophet, he points out again and again, showed clemency to a host of people who insulted him or ridiculed him.
Members of the state legislature, meanwhile, have introduced a bill to curb the governor's powers of clemency.In his defence, Mr Barbour has pointed out that he was simply following the recommendation of Mississippi's parole board in the vast majority of cases.
In 1998, he appeared at a clemency hearing for a death-row inmate and pointed at then-Governor Jim Hunt: "You're a murderer.
While other states have scaled back similar bans in recent years, Governor Bush and the Legislature call their law a necessary consequence for citizens who commit crimes, and point out that many are eventually granted clemency.
However, over the past year, as awareness spread of Chan and Sukumaran's remorse and rehabilitation, media and public sympathy towards them grew to a point where polls show a large majority supported clemency.
