Sentence examples for for commutation from inspiring English sources

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Farmhands often lacked the money for commutation or purchasing a substitute.

He also denied 1,019 applications for a pardon and 3,793 applications for commutation.

"People were using autos for commutation purposes that perhaps should not have been.

But one, Matthew Makowski, 43, was recommended for commutation by a parole board vote after a public hearing in October.

"Rather than being protected by the State I was prosecuted," Hall wrote in her application for commutation.

Should that render them ineligible for commutations of unjustly long sentences?

He has approved just 3percentt of the applications for pardons and 0.3percentt of those for commutations.

Last month, President Obama turned down 605 requests for commutations — from prisoners who wanted their sentences shortened — and 71 for pardons.

In the first 10 months of fiscal 2013, 2,000 inmates applied for commutations, more than in any single year in history.

In August the president broke a record for commutations in a single month by reducing the sentences of 325 inmates.