Sentence examples for two pardons from inspiring English sources

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

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.

It was also disclosed that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign treasurer, William Cunningham III, got $4,000 to prepare two pardon applications sent to the Justice Department.

No two pardon cases match up perfectly, but records reveal repeated instances in which white applicants won pardons with transgressions on their records similar to those of blacks and other minorities who weredenied.

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).

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.

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.