WordNet
n. the power (usually of a president or governor) to pardon or commute the sentence of someone convicted in that jurisdiction
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "executive clemency".
Many people are working for this to happen, and many more can help by writing to their congresspersons and senators, asking them to support executive clemency.
Breckinridge had applied for executive clemency, and that Booneville speech became a favourable introduction.
On November 11, 2002, she painstakingly filled out an Executive Clemency application to send to Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber.
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.
Told that his execution date was a week hence, he'd been marched to the prison commandant's office, informed of his right as a Soviet citizen to appeal directly to the President for executive clemency, and invited to draft a handwritten letter to that end.
Kellogg felt that it was a case where executive clemency ought to be exercised.
It took thousands of people and the retirement of certain key officials before he was granted executive clemency, but if Jaguar was remembering right, he was sprung in time for the millennium.
Only three weeks earlier, after years exhausting every legal opportunity, after three writs to the Supreme Court, after demonstrations and appeals to the Governor of Maryland and the President of the United States for executive clemency, Miller and his colleagues had, one by one, walked into the gas chamber in Baltimore, and been carried out half an hour later, quite dead.
On Wednesday, presidential counsel Philip Buchen met with Herbert Miller, Nixon's attorney, at the White House and disclosed that Ford was considering executive clemency.
When Hilda thought about dying at all she thought of it as a sort of grant of executive clemency.
Davis was sent to Johnson's Island for execution, but influences were immediately set at work to secure Executive clemency.
Parents pled for judicial mercy or executive clemency on behalf of children who had grown up to commit rape and murder and the torture of the innocent.