The phrase "commutation by" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a type of substitution or replacement. Example: The company decided to reduce employee benefits, but the employees negotiated for commutation by increasing their salaries instead.
But one, Matthew Makowski, 43, was recommended for commutation by a parole board vote after a public hearing in October.
"I think one of the reasons people are taking the train is that commutation by car is becoming intolerable," he said.
(Daly, the Cook County state's attorney's office spokeswoman, wrote, "We were surprised by today's commutation by the former Governor, but there is a post-conviction petition pending in this case and it remains the subject of review by this office". Hood's record will continue to reflect a murder conviction.
When pilgrimages to the Holy Land, to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, or going on a Crusade could be imposed as penitential exercises, commutation by means of payment of money led to abuses and traffic in indulgences and the treasury of merits, a superabundance of merits attributed to Christ and his saints that could be transferred to sinful believers.
Manning was among 209 individuals granted a commutation by Obama today, bringing his total commutations to 1,385 — the most of any president in history.
My good fortune doesn't end with my commutation by the president.
And even on the federal level, sweeping reforms for nonviolent offenses were implemented, and the 1,715 granted commutations by President Obama is the largest by any U.S. President, more than the last 12 presidents combined.
For their part, the recipients of commutations by Presidents Obama, Clinton, and George W. Bush, whom we so hastily threw away behind bars for decades, have become lawyers (Serena Nunn), social workers (Peter Ninemire), nonprofit starters (Amy Ralston Povah), business owners (De-Ann Coffman-Ames), authors (Donald Clark), community counselors (Kim Willis) and teachers (Kemba Smith).
Commuting Aaron's sentence should be one of the easiest decisions President Obama ever makes, especially because Aaron's commutation, supported by his judge and prosecutor, was derailed during the last administration by current U.S. pardon attorney Ronald Rodgers.
The clemencies granted were the result of recent improvements in the commutation process by the Justice Department which included a fast tracking program that implemented a stream lining of the application process to prisoners that were eligible under newly set criteria.
Congressional investigators are also scrutinizing numerous other grants of clemency among the 176 pardons and commutations issued by Mr. Clinton on Jan . 20 his final day in office.
