"Bradley Manning should be shown clemency in recognition of his motives for acting as he did, the treatment he endured in his early pre-trial detention, and the due process shortcomings during his trial," AI's Widney Brown said.
Though there was no doubt about the heinousness of his crimes, his lawyers argued that Cook suffered such appalling abuse as a child that he should have been shown clemency in commuting his sentence to life in prison.
"Bradley Manning should be shown clemency in recognition of his motives for acting as he did, the treatment he endured in his early pre-trial detention, and the due process shortcomings during his trial," AI's Widney Brown said.
To the question as to what fate should be meted out to the insurgent ex-generals, 30% were for death penalty; 25% proposed prison; 215 favored leaving them to "the extreme rigors of the law," 1% thought they should be exiled; 6% that they be shown clemency.
His history painting of the family of the defeated Persian emperor mistaking one of Alexander the Great's generals for the conquering hero himself and being shown clemency by the real Alexander is rich in the way Shakespeare' histories are rich, showing comedy and romance among the tragedy of war.
Due to the persistence of Saigō Takamori, a prominent leader of the imperial faction, the Tokugawa loyalists were shown clemency, and many former shogunate leaders were later given positions of responsibility under the new government.
Typically, this clemency is shown through a pardon, which forgives a person's conviction and restores his or her civil liberties, or commutation, in which a convicted person's sentence is abbreviated or vacated.
Osborne warned today that ring-fencing the NHS and international development meant non-protected departments would face average real cuts of 25% but that some clemency would be shown to education and defence.
Agreeing with Tan Guat Neo Phyllis, the Court held that the clemency power is subject to judicial review if it can be shown to have been exercised unconstitutionally, in bad faith or for extraneous purposes.
But that is only because he and other government officials have shown clemency to those sentenced to huge fines and time behind bars for libel by judges.
