Sentence examples for pleas for clemency from inspiring English sources
This week Indonesia executed eight more, despite international pleas for clemency.
They included Brasillach, despite pleas for clemency from the tender-hearted François Mauriac.
From Oradour survivors came calls for the death penalty, from Alsace, pleas for clemency.
Pleas for clemency were ignored, and the Netherlands and Brazil withdrew their ambassadors in protest.
19 September – The five-member Board of Pardons and Paroles hear pleas for clemency.
The execution came despite pleas for clemency from the Bush administration and European officials.
Mr. Bhakta's plea for clemency traveled a different route.
See articleIn India a Kashmiri militant was hanged after his final plea for clemency was rejected.
"I went to see Sir Keith Joseph [then education secretary] to make a plea for clemency.
Mr Alan Paton displayed it in his plea for clemency from the witness box before sentence was passed.
His plea for clemency had landed on my father's desk; previously, Gov. Pat Brown had declined it.
