Sentence examples for formal pardon from inspiring English sources

When Theresa's surveillance bill comes in, you will get a formal pardon.

How better could today's NHS demonstrate its newfound support for whistleblowing than by issuing a formal pardon to Mr Pink?

Last year, the Egyptian journalist joined a group of al-Jazeera journalists to request his own formal pardon from Sisi.

In life, the Scottsboro boys were only fully exonerated long after all of them had died, when Alabama's governor signed a formal pardon in April 2013.

After four years of solitary confinement, he was believed to be dying and was granted a formal pardon; but he was not able to leave the prison hospital at Tours until just before the Revolution of 1848.

Seven al-Jazeera journalists convicted in absentia on spurious terror-related charges in Egypt have begun the process of requesting a formal pardon from Egyptian president Abdel Fatah al-Sisi.

Shimon Peres, Israel's president, has issued formal pardons as required.

But the formal pardoning program began with the first President Bush in 1989.

Gov. Bill Richardson said Thursday that he had received a formal petition to pardon Billy the Kid, and that he would make a decision before he left office at the end of the year.

The Manning lawyers plan to lodge a formal request for a pardon or commutation from President Barack Obama.

"Dr Alan Turing was an exceptional man with a brilliant mind," said the justice minister, Chris Grayling, who made the formal request for the pardon.