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What (who) is executive clemency - definition

FORGIVENESS OF A CRIME AND THE CANCELLATION OF THE RELEVANT PENALTY
Clemency; Presidential pardon; Pardoned; Pardons; King's Pardon; Royal Pardon; Commute a sentence; Executive clemency; Pardoning; Presidential Pardon; Prerogative of mercy (Rwanda); Pardon power; Pardon (law); Criminal pardon; Grace (law); Rights of grace; Right of grace; Presidential pardons; Statuary pardon
  • [[Thomas Nast]] asks pardon for his sketches.

executive clemency         
n. the power of a President in federal criminal cases, and the Governor in state convictions, to pardon a person convicted of a crime, commute the sentence (shorten it, often to time already served) or reduce it from death to another lesser sentence. There are many reasons for exercising this power, including real doubts about the guilt of the party, apparent excessive sentence, humanitarian reasons such as illness of an aged inmate, to clear the record of someone who has demonstrated rehabilitation or public service, or because the party is a political or personal friend of the Governor. See also: commutation pardon
Pardon         
·vt The state of being forgiven.
II. Pardon ·vt To give leave (of departure) to.
III. Pardon ·vt To refrain from exacting as a penalty.
IV. Pardon ·vt An official warrant of remission of penalty.
V. Pardon ·vt To remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without punishment; to Forgive;
- applied to offenses.
VI. Pardon ·vt To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty;
- applied to the offender.
VII. Pardon ·vt The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.
VIII. Pardon ·vt A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses.
clemency         
n.
1) to show clemency
2) to beg for, seek clemency
3) to deny clemency

Wikipedia

Pardon

A pardon is a government decision to allow a person to be relieved of some or all of the legal consequences resulting from a criminal conviction. A pardon may be granted before or after conviction for the crime, depending on the laws of the jurisdiction.

Pardons can be granted in many countries when individuals are deemed to have demonstrated that they have "paid their debt to society", or are otherwise considered to be deserving of them. In some jurisdictions of some nations, accepting a pardon may implicitly constitute an admission of guilt; the offer is refused in some cases. Cases of wrongful conviction are in recent times more often dealt with by appeal rather than by pardon; however, a pardon is sometimes offered when innocence is undisputed in order to avoid the costs that are associated with a retrial. Clemency plays a critical role when capital punishment exists in a jurisdiction.

Pardons are sometimes seen as a mechanism for combating corruption, allowing a particular authority to circumvent a flawed judicial process to free someone who is seen as wrongly convicted. Pardons can also be a source of controversy. In extreme cases, some pardons may be seen as acts of corruption by officials in the form of granting effective immunity as political favors.

Examples of use of executive clemency
1. And calls for executive clemency have come from many Republican lawmakers.
2. The Arizona Board of Executive Clemency paroled him eight years early in 2004.
3. "I hereby grant executive clemency to Joseph Ejercito Estrada," chief presidential spokesman Ignacio Bunye said on television, quoting Arroyo‘s order.
4. And my question, will you join me in asking the President for executive clemency of this police officer?
5. In Florida, the governor, with the approval of at least two Cabinet members sitting as the state‘s Executive Clemency Board, can restore those rights.