Sentence examples for their clemency from inspiring English sources

President Joko Widodo in December rejected their clemency requests.

The duo lodged their clemency appeals in 2012 but previous Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono left the decision to be made by his successor, Widodo.

At the very least, Mr Obama and the state governors should use their clemency powers to reduce the sentences of those now locked up for ever for non-violent crimes.

Nevertheless, the president's pardon authority was unlimited under the Constitution and Mr. Clinton could pardon anyone, whether they were fugitives or had completed a prison term, even if their clemency petitions bypassed the Justice Department or even if they had filed no application.

The two men say they have reformed and should not have had their clemency appeals rejected.

Chan and Sukumaran have had their clemency appeals rejected by Indonesian President Joko Widodo.

Despite this backlog, Department of Justice pardon attorneys asked for even more work when they prodded lawyers to file their clients' clemency applications quickly so that Obama, even as a lame duck, can act on them around the time he pardons his last turkey.

"The lazy paedophile – child abuse must be delivered directly to their door, like an evil pizza, or they simply can't be arsed!" Not that there is anything funny about these people, in fact they are dangerous – not least because of what they regard to be their right to clemency for their "lesser crime".

The pair had met their end alongside Dutch, Nigerian, Brazilian, and French nationals after their appeals for clemency were repeatedly denied.

On January 17th six drug-traffickers, five of them foreign nationals from Brazil, Malawi, the Netherlands, Nigeria and Vietnam, were executed by firing squad after Jokowi turned down their appeals for clemency.

31] when they were convicted of treason were executed this afternoon, following rejection of their appeals for clemency by the Central Executive Committee.