clemency

Why can't the Football Association show clemency just like Fifa did?

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

Now Balogun has also been granted the same clemency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

But unfortunately, by the time Rausch steps up to defend him, the innocent comic is beyond any chance of clemency at the banishment round table.

From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026

But when petitioners with freestanding innocence claims request habeas review, they are told to try clemency instead.

From Slate ● May 29, 2026

Lying in his hammock, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was insensible to the pleas for clemency.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

And I started finding executive orders for clemencies, for furloughs—people leaving at Christmas for 10 days and coming back.

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

The president has issued a number of clemencies during the first year of his second term, many for defendants in criminal cases once touted by federal prosecutors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026

Those clemencies came on top of the commutation awarded last month to George Santos, the disgraced former New York congressman found guilty of defrauding donors and lying to the House of Representatives.

From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2025

A day later, top officials at the agency celebrated several people who have received pardons and clemencies in recent years, characterizing their long sentences for nonviolent drug crimes as harsh and unfair.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2023

In your greatness ye shall change it; with your justice ye shall purify it; with your clemencies ye should it chasten and amerce.

From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford, Ford Madox