Sentence examples for representations for clemency from inspiring English sources

Australia has been making strong representations for clemency to Indonesia on behalf of Chan and Sukumaran, sentenced to death in 2006 for the Bali Nine heroin smuggling plot.

His representation of a Tennessee parole board chairwoman in a 1977 lawsuit helped bring down a Democratic governor in a cash-for-clemency scandal — and kicked off his acting career, when he played himself in a movie about the case.

In January 2015 Australia's prime minister, Tony Abbott, together with Australia's minister for foreign affairs, Julie Bishop, made representations to Jokowi and Indonesia's foreign minister, Retno Marsudi, for clemency in the commutation of Sukumaran and Chan's sentences.

Chan and Sukumaran have had all their appeals and applications for clemency rejected by the Indonesian government, despite repeated representations on their behalf by the Australian government and human rights activists who say the two men have reformed.

The pope called for clemency.

Ms. Lewis's lawyers pleaded unsuccessfully for clemency.

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

Appeals and a request for clemency failed.

Even Salvador Allende, Chile's Marxist president, called for clemency.

She seemed an unlikely candidate for clemency.

On October 3rd, he asked Mr Wahid for clemency.