executive clemency

He also opted not to apply for executive clemency.

The 1988 report, the association's most recent on the subject, concluded that there were about 2,000 prison releases annually resulting from executive clemency.

He was sympathetic, spent forty minutes listening, and promised action on my petition for executive clemency.

This unusual record may reflect a certain indifference to the value and purpose of executive clemency.

The status can only be cleared by a successful appeal or executive clemency.

"We've seen the near elimination of executive clemency," he said.

His only hope was, of all things, executive clemency.

The opinion also said that such inmates were not without recourse, as they could always seek executive clemency.

In his final days in office, Black considered many requests for executive clemency.

But you want my advice you'll take a quick hearing, let them get sentenced and then try for executive clemency in a couple months.