Sentence examples for plea for clemency from from inspiring English sources

Mr Alan Paton displayed it in his plea for clemency from the witness box before sentence was passed.

Georgia has executed Kelly Renee Gissendaner with a fatal injection for the slaying of her husband, despite a plea for clemency from their children.

In Mr. Agbayani's case, when the president received a final-hour plea for clemency from a prominent bishop, he acted quickly.

Israel has made public a decades-old handwritten plea for clemency from Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann for his role in the Holocaust, dated two days before he was executed.

They included Brasillach, despite pleas for clemency from the tender-hearted François Mauriac.

The execution came despite pleas for clemency from the Bush administration and European officials.

Mr Estrada had refused pleas for clemency from the pope, the European Union, Canada and Mr Echegaray himself.

In 2011, for instance, widespread news reports said Pakistani Taliban fighters shot dead a retired Pakistani intelligence official they had kidnapped despite pleas for clemency from Mullah Omar.

The government rejected pleas for clemency from the United Nations and other quarters on the ground that the accused had received a fair trial by an impartial court.

The government in Jakarta has strained international ties by rejecting global pleas for clemency from leaders in Australia and countries with other convicts due to be killed.

The government rejected pleas for clemency from the United Nations, stating that the accused had received a fair trial by an impartial court.