For the pardon recipient, it is the story of an individual who has led a productive and law-abiding post-conviction life, including by contributing to the community in a meaningful way".
In Gambia, President Jammeh enacted an amendment to existing criminal codes against homosexuality, in October 2014, making 'aggravated homosexuality' conviction a life-time sentence.
Lamentations over the passing of old customs express his conviction that life had sadly deteriorated from its former glory.
We started out with this deep conviction that life was tragic and that one better make the best of it.
This involves the Polish conviction that life is fundamentally miserable and meaningless, meant to be endured rather than enjoyed.
In 1996, the court of appeal quashed his conviction and life sentence for shooting dead a former UDR soldier, John Lyness, three years earlier.
The judge threw out Martin's murder conviction and life sentence — but he didn't set Martin free, at least not yet.
Youthful delusions of immortality helped her survive, she says, and probably, too, the contradictory conviction that life could end at any moment.
A man who murdered his six-year-old daughter 11 months after the high court returned her to his custody is appealing against his conviction and life sentence.
Russia's highest court upheld the conviction and life sentence of a Chechen carpenter accused of participating in the seizure of a public school in Beslan in 2004.
Last year, Peru overturned the conviction and life sentence of Lori Berenson, an American, on charges she was a leader of the rebel movement.
