Sentence examples for three pardons from inspiring English sources

Abagnale said he has turned down three pardons from three different US presidents.

Mr. Piñera said the time for a general pardon was not right, noting that the government had issued three pardons in the past decade.

All six pardons were granted.

(George W. Bush granted a hundred and eighty-nine pardons, and eleven commutations; for Bill Clinton, the numbers were three hundred and ninety-six pardons and sixty-one commutations).

Last week, the President announced that he had commuted the sentences of ninety-five federal prisoners and granted two pardons.

Mr. Paterson has granted nine pardons, three commutations and one clemency, and plans to make more pardons in immigration cases before leaving office on Dec. 31, officials in his office said Thursday.

While the decision applied only to the nine pardons, an opposite ruling would have put the vast majority of the others in jeopardy.

Last month, the governor of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, who is approaching the end of his eight years in office, approved four pardons, the first in the state since 2002.

The two pardons come a week after Mr. Bush approved the execution of Oliver Cruz, a convicted rapist and murderer deemed mentally retarded by defense psychologists.

In disclosing the first seven pardons of his administration two days before Christmas, the current president made clear that he was not going to risk any kind of political backlash.

Aren't redemption and forgiveness what it's all about?" In his past two terms, Brown has issued one thousand and fifty-nine pardons and thirty-seven commutations, far more than any of his recent predecessors did.