Sentence examples for petitioned for clemency from inspiring English sources

The California governor said in July that he would consider additional testing in the case of Kevin Cooper, who was convicted in 1985 of four murders and had petitioned for clemency.

Edith's plight sparked outrage amongst neutral nations who had petitioned for clemency, and her image was widely used by Britain in anti-German propaganda posters.

Brannan's latest court appeal was in the mid-2000s, and this week Lundin and other advocates — including multiple veterans from US wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan — petitioned for clemency, which was denied.

Every Friday, Mark Osler, a law professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota and an advocate for inmates petitioning for clemency, takes a phone call in his office from an inmate in a Texas prison.

Others still petitioning for clemency include Michael Milken, the Wall Street junk bond trader who served a short prison term for 1980s-era financrimesrimes before rehabilitating himself through charity work, and Scooter Libby, the former top aide to vice-president Dick Cheney whose perjury sentence Bush commuted last year.

Rejecting Clemency Petitioning for clemency, his lawyer J. Gary Hart argued that Texas had failed Mr. Patterson.

Das has been in jail for 17 years, with his petition for clemency pending for 12 years.

Wood's legal team recently submitted his petition for clemency to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles.

Last July, the Justice Department received a petition for clemency that his lawyers say he prepared himself.

New petitions for clemency are on pace to surpass 2,100 this fiscal year, which ends in September.

Their petitions for clemency have been rejected by Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president.