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Muganga and the stowaway plot to kill Tintin and make it look like a leopard attack, but Tintin survives and saves Muganga from a boa constrictor; Muganga pleads mercy and ends his hostilities.

Or who, repeatedly and with a great show of feeling, assured the court, as he had assured the police examiner, that the worst thing he could do would be to try to escape his true responsibilities, to fight for his neck, to plead for mercy — and then, upon instruction of his counsel, submitted a handwritten document that contained a plea for mercy?

Panther wanted him to plead for mercy.

For the most part, they plead for mercy, saying times were hard under the Israeli occupation.

When the time came at sentencing to plead for mercy, the court said, Mr. Porter uttered just nine words.

But the defense lawyers invited a host of witnesses -- from Mr. Alvarez's mother and brother to his elementary school principal -- to plead for mercy for him.

"Yaaaaarrrr!" They charged with umbrellas outheld, Stevick feeling he'd abandoned his station but unable to stem the urge to gore the man on the sidewalk and see him plead for mercy in the rain.

In a mural from the site of Bonampak, seen here in a modern copy, prisoners have their nails torn out or their fingers sliced off; others plead for mercy; still others await further mutilation and death.

42 Second Death Penalty Appeal The second appeal of a death sentence under the state's 1995 capital punishment law argues that people facing execution in New York should have a right to plead for mercy before jurors consider their fate.

Two weeks later they were hanged at dawn and it emerged that Shell had not tried to plead for mercy for its critics, saying it was a matter for the state.

At its end it was suggested that if he showed sufficient contrition there could be a way back into the fold at Stamford Bridge, but he was unwilling to plead for mercy.

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