That even applied to the Nazi brass who had committed reprehensible crimes against humanity.
Historically, outgoing presidents have often invoked this power in the last days of their terms — at times on behalf of people who've committed reprehensible acts — under the premise that mitigating circumstances outweigh the rationale for punishment.
Here was a soldier who -- while committed reprehensible and unjustifiable murders -- had long felt alienated in the military, expressed frustrations about being forced to go to Afghanistan and was mortified about the idea of having to kill fellow Muslims.
Asked about police violence towards the Nuit Debout demonstrators, Falcone added there were 150,000 police and 100,000 gendarmes in France and "there could be a few who might commit reprehensible acts".
He felt as if he had committed a reprehensible act, executed a reprehensible gesture, but then, as he was walking back to Arromanches, everything he had done in Paris, every gesture and action, seemed reprehensible, futile, senseless, and even ridiculous.
"You committed a reprehensible crime in my opinion, the most reprehensible crime a lawyer can commit, which is the corruption of a judge," Judge Biggers said in sentencing Richard Scruggs.
Characters who initially seem likable commit reprehensible acts, and apparent villains become sympathetic over time.
We can hardly be surprised that certain individuals, at best psychologically weak, at worst deliberately criminal, lose all their moral principles and commit reprehensible acts not because of any geographic remoteness or cultural difference, but because, in their own countries, those moral principles have disintegrated.
The UN human-rights commissioner said that although the crimes committed had been "reprehensible and heinous", the trials that followed "failed to meet the most fundamental standards of due process".
How can I, as an Ahmadi Muslim man, sit idly by while other Muslim men claim Islam as their motivation for committing the most reprehensible acts?
IN 1954, the American government committed one of the most reprehensible acts in its history when it authorized the C.I.A. to overthrow the democratically elected leader of Guatemala, President Jacobo Arbenz.
