Sentence examples for lack of clemency from inspiring English sources

A9 NATIONAL A10-15 U.S. to Delay Execution To Allow Clemency Plea The Clinton administration is planning to postpone the first federal execution in nearly 40 years, scheduled for Aug. 5, because of a lack of clemency procedures and because of concerns about racial and geographic disparities in death penalty cases, officials said.

He wrote about this in the NY Times in an op-ed titled "A Broken System, and Too Few Pardons". He blamed the lack of use of the powers of clemency and pardons on the "Willie Horton syndrome". This refers to the early release of a prisoner who then committed a murder and the case was used against Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts when he ran for president in 1988 against George H. W. Bush.

The New York Times, for example, editorialized it was "better than nothing," but assailed lack of progress on the Administration's clemency initiative -- once seen as capable of freeing perhaps thousands of federal inmates serving unjustly long sentences, but now viewed as seriously underperforming.

The pope asked for "a significant gesture of clemency".

"I have invoked for you a sign of clemency".

Bruno's moment of clemency towards Daisy was adorable.

He also granted 19 other criminals lesser degrees of clemency, like conditional suspensions of their sentences.

There is also the possibility of clemency from Alabama's governor.

"It's almost like this power of clemency has been forgotten," Sister Fitzgerald said.

Grants of clemency are solely at the governor's discretion, and he is not obligated to give his reasoning.

Historically, more than one in five of the 95,000 clemency petitions have been granted since 1900, but that rate has dropped in recent years, with just 3 percent of clemency requests, or 177 of 5,806 cases, being granted.