Sentence examples for for a commutation from inspiring English sources

Mr. Becerra told The Los Angeles Times in 2001 that he had not pushed for a commutation, merely a review of the case.

On Tuesday afternoon, the seven-member board unanimously rejected a petition from Mr. Wood's lawyers for a commutation of his sentence.

In her application for a commutation, Manning said that she understood why a request she had made for a pardon soon after her sentencing had been turned down.

In July 2007, for example, Mr. Bush eliminated Mr. Libby's prison sentence even though he had not applied for a commutation.

"My brother is not asking for a pardon, he is asking for a commutation, which would reduce his sentence," Tynes told reporters Wednesday.

His diplomatic representative in the US, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, sent a letter to the parole board on behalf of the pontiff asking for a commutation of Gissendaner's sentence "to one that would better express both justice and mercy".

When Hillary tried to send the hounds chasing off after her husband, she was feeling the heat from revelations about her brother Hugh taking "a success fee" of $400,000 for helping secure a pardon for a Miami vitamin charlatan and a commutation for an L.A. drug kingpin.

One of those measures, allowing for some inmates serving long terms for crack cocaine offenses to be resentenced, would affect some of the pool of people who would likely petition for (and receive) a commutation under the plan Cole announced.

His judge said in an interview that he "fully supported" a commutation for the 1996 conviction for methamphetamine possession with intent to distribute.

Recommendations for a pardon or a commutation require a great deal of investigation; in most cases, the pardon attorney's easiest course is to advise that the president say no.

Kimmel also asked about West's wife, Kim Kardashian, visiting Trump at the White House earlier this year to help win a commutation for Alice Johnson, a 63-year-old grandmother who had been serving a life sentence for a first-time nonviolent drug offense.