Sentence examples for requests a pardon from inspiring English sources

Royal adviser Escalus (John Cullum) requests a pardon for Claudio's one fault: -- "Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall" -- but Angelo is unmoved.

Wright's application also requests a pardon for a 1972 conviction, when Wright was 19, for taking a motor vehicle without the owner's consent.

Clemency requests, which include both requests for a pardon and requests that a sentence be commuted, typically flow through the Office of the Pardon Attorney at the Department of Justice (see the Justice Department's FAQs).

Both had requested a pardon.

Parker requested a pardon, and received it, in 1991.

Mr. Singh then wrote to President Asif Ali Zardari in July 2009, requesting a pardon on humanitarian grounds.

His wife had requested a pardon from the Indian government, but her plea was denied.

A bill requesting a pardon from George W. Bush passed the House of Representatives in 2008 but died in the Senate.

The State Department had earlier said that Mr. King intended to request a pardon and amnesty for the missionary, Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American from Washington State.

Pfc. Bradley Manning, who was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday for giving classified documents to Wikileaks, today sent a letter to President Obama requesting a pardon.

The government said in a statement that it had released the opposition leader, Birtukan Mideksa, because she had requested a pardon last month.