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.

In December following, he received a free pardon from the Crown.

He was give a free pardon in return for information about the robbery.

I replied, a free pardon and a command for myself.

"To be given a free pardon for something you didn't do."

The reward was a free pardon as an accomplice and 200 pounds.

"It's true, is it, they're going to give me a free pardon or something silly like that ?"

I was given it by two people who got scared to death and sold you down the river for a free pardon.

He also offered a free pardon to those who have fought on the rebel side.

In 1986, all three received unsolicited free pardons from the president.

Nothing would make me happier than to give him a free pardon.

The consultant felt he should cut him off simply as an act of mercy.

Only death, or a miraculous act of mercy, can release them.

It was an act of mercy to turn him out.

He wanted Rap to kill him, though, and it would certainly be an act of mercy.

Your past has prepared you for this act of mercy.

The one hope for him now was to find a refuge from himself in acts of mercy.

She is later killed as an act of mercy by Freath.

Whether they did so for revenge or as an act of mercy, I never learned.

It would also be an act of compassion and mercy.

He came to me not even as an act of courtesy or mercy.