Sentence examples for has a clemency from inspiring English sources

Mr. Workman still has a clemency application pending before Gov. Don Sundquist, a Republican.

Mr Widodo, who took office in 2014, has a policy of denying clemency to drug offenders, saying the drug trade has caused huge damage to Indonesia.

His lawyers, who have been supported by the DPP, have made a clemency application to the president.

Since learning of the execution date, Panetti's lawyers have filed a clemency petition, as well as two other motions.

As a result, lawyers who have followed Mr. Pataki's clemency decisions say, only exemplary prisoners have a chance at clemency.

They have a law on clemency that says you have a right to apply for clemency [but] they've said in advance that all 64 are dead.

The justices issued their decision a little after 6.30pm ET. Protests have been made over the length of time Valle has spent on death row and the fact that he has been denied a clemency hearing.

(The day before his speech last week on reforming the N.S.A., he told me, "I do not have a yes/no answer on clemency for Edward Snowden. This is an active case, where charges have been brought").

It is not clear whether Chan has had a similar rejection of clemency.

Now, although his lawyers have appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing that the judge's jury instructions at the second trial were defective, the real battle is for the hearts of the 18 people on the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, which has granted clemency in a capital case only once in the last five years.

Clemency should have a proper role in correcting legal mistakes in an imperfect system.