Sentence examples for free pardon from inspiring English sources

So his release on a free pardon, decided by Jack Straw, is to be welcomed.

Straw's lawyers had argued there was was a lack of jurisdiction to grant Shields a free pardon.

Having returned to Britain, Cochrane continued to vigorously proclaim his innocence in the 1814 stock market matter, and in 1832, though he did not receive the annulment of his conviction that he pursued, he was granted a free pardon.

Guicciardini, who had arrived shortly before to help protect the city, succeeded in preventing the duke from assaulting the palace of the Signoria by negotiating a free pardon in return for surrender.

Quite early in his journey Christian loses his burden of sin at the Cross, so he now knows that he has received the free pardon of Christ and is numbered among the elect.

His release came after Straw said he had concluded "that Michael Shields is telling the truth when he says he is innocent" and had "recommended to her majesty the Queen that he should be granted a free pardon".

"Richard Nixon hadn't even been indicted when Gerald Ford issued a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon," comments the Pardon Snowden campaign.

Ford announced he was granting Richard Nixon a "full, free, and absolute" pardon for any & all crimes he may have committed during his 5 1/2 years as Pres.

After a month in office, in the interests of ending the "national nightmare" of Watergate, he granted Richard Nixon a "full, free, and absolute pardon" for any criminal acts he might have committed while president.

More than 167,000 people signed the petition – calling for Mr Snowden to be "immediately issued with a full, free, and absolute pardon" – on the government's official petitions website, We the People.

In 1974, for instance, President Gerald R. Ford issued "a full, free and absolute pardon" to Richard M. Nixon for all federal crimes he had "committed or may have committed" during his presidency.