Sentence examples for exercise of mercy from inspiring English sources

An exit strategy from this upward spiral of incarceration lies in revitalizing the exercise of mercy.

Rather, the exercise of mercy is part of our constitutional design, and if anything presidents have used it too sparingly in recent years.

Is it a morally permissible exercise of mercy for a governor to commute the death sentences of everyone on a state's death row, as Governor Ryan recently did in Illinois?

Several such exercises of mercy are recorded in various Asian kingdoms.

The execution, the first in France for two years, and the twentieth in the last 20 years, took place a few hours after President Giscard D'Estaing had refused to exercise his prerogative of mercy.

The Sovereign exercises the "prerogative of mercy", which is used to pardon convicted offenders or reduce sentences.

The President of Rwanda is the head of state, and has broad powers including creating policy in conjunction with the Cabinet, exercising the prerogative of mercy, commanding the armed forces, negotiating and ratifying treaties, signing presidential orders, and declaring war or a state of emergency.

McArdle, also serving a 25-year term over the Docklands bombing which killed two men in February 1996 as the first IRA ceasefire collapsed, was freed after Peter Mandelson, the Northern Ireland secretary, asked the Queen to exercise the royal prerogative of mercy.

He said, "I would rather have a Sister of Mercy exercising whatever influence she can over that department than some feminist floozy who is an abortion advocate".

Whitehall reacted by announcing on 1 March 1968 that at the request of the UK government, the Queen had exercised the royal prerogative of mercy and commuted the sentences to life imprisonment.

Whitehall announced on 1 March that at the request of the UK government, the Queen had exercised the royal prerogative of mercy and commuted the three death sentences to life imprisonment.