Sentence examples for got clemency from inspiring English sources
Obama says, "I've got clemency paperwork for Edward Snowden right here, tonight, for him to come and read".
Maybe once a month, I'd look at the page, which had pictures of him in prison — I was curious to see how he was doing or if he got clemency.
"It seems that ethnic minority prisoners face an even harder time than ordinary prisoners getting clemency," he said.
Triggs called for the bipartisan work done to try to get clemency for Chan and Sukumaran to be channelled into achieving a moratorium on the death penalty in the Asia Pacific.
Arnold Clark, an unemployed black man from Liberty City, said he tried to vote but was turned away because of a felony robbery conviction in 1986, even though he said he had gotten clemency papers and displayed a voter registration card.
In a piece for Slate titled "Why Snowden Won't (And Shouldn't) Get Clemency," Fred Kaplan mentions my suggestion, in a piece for the site, that Jimmy Carter's pardoning of Vietnam draft dodgers offers "a useful parallel" when thinking of the legal situation of Edward Snowden.
Today's discussion was inspired by Kaplan's article "Why Snowden Won't (and Shouldn't) Get Clemency" on Slate.
Stevens was sentenced to 15-years-to-life for a nonviolent drug offense and served 10 years before getting clemency from former New York Gov. George Pataki in 2001.
Anyone trying to excuse this egregious act of gross malfeasance is either a White House official, or an inmate at San Quentin trying to get clemency before being hauled off to Death Row.
Twenty-one percent of Florida's African-American voting age population can't vote because state law strips them of the right unless they get clemency from the governor.
Mark Osler, a professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis, told USA Today in May: "... those reductions [from the courts] are close to what they would get with clemency... it's a logical choice that they would go that route (through the courts)" because it's more efficient.
