clemency


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Synonyms for clemency

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Synonyms for clemency

kind, forgiving, or compassionate treatment of or disposition toward others

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Synonyms for clemency

good weather with comfortable temperatures

leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice

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clemency is the only light which can enlighten the interior of so great a soul.
At length the day broke, and poor Mrs Quilp, shivering with cold of early morning and harassed by fatigue and want of sleep, was discovered sitting patiently on her chair, raising her eyes at intervals in mute appeal to the compassion and clemency of her lord, and gently reminding him by an occasion cough that she was still unpardoned and that her penance had been of long duration.
She supposed she must say more before she were entitled to his clemency; but it was a hard case to be obliged still to lower herself in his opinion.
This reminded me of the wonderful difference between the servile manner in which he had offered his hand in my new prosperity, saying, "May I?" and the ostentatious clemency with which he had just now exhibited the same fat five fingers.
I treated the rest in the same manner, taking them one by one out of my pocket; and I observed both the soldiers and people were highly delighted at this mark of my clemency, which was represented very much to my advantage at court.
He was ready to make any display of clemency, forgiveness or cowardice.
Presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo on Tuesday said he would file libel and cyberlibel charges against Inquirer.net and Rappler for allegedly maliciously imputing that he recommended granting executive clemency to convicted rapist-murderer Antonio Sanchez.
Board of Pardons and Parole: Panelo wrote letter referring Sanchez request for executive clemency !-- -- (Philstar.com) - September 3, 2019 - 12:41pm MANILA, Philippines (Updated 1:28 p.
In addition, they have also announced that Duke Tanner's clemency petition is before the Trump White House; they hope to obtain an answer on his clemency before 2020.
Surendran revealed that four Malaysians are part of the 10 on death row whose clemency were rejected.
Paul Echols was honored Monday by the Carbondale NAACP for his work in helping a wrongly convicted black man, Grover Thompson, receive posthumous clemency in a decades-old murder case.
16 (Saba) - Canada has officially asked for clemency from China to stop the death sentence imposed by the Chinese authorities against Canadian citizen Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, convicted of drug trafficking.
California Governor Jerry Brown's bountiful grants of Christmas Eve clemency remind us that the justice system, when it is humane, extends to convicts a measure of hope along with an incentive to reflect, repent and rehabilitate.
Summary: President has granted clemency to Matthew Hedges, British national convicted for spying