petition for mercy
petition for pardon

On the smaller beads, it has specific other petitions for mercy.

At 23:00, Ryan was informed that his final petition for mercy had been rejected.

They both petitioned for mercy and were released on probation in May 1991 after serving more than 35 years in prison.

He turned down the opportunity to file a petition for mercy, expressing a preference for death rather than seeking clemency.

As Amun-Re he was petitioned for mercy by those who believed suffering had come about as a result of their own or others wrongdoing.

On May 31, Ben Zvi turned down Eichmann's petition for mercy.

Petition for mercy (which address the Minister-President)

As soon as he recovered his power of articulation, Isaac began to pour out a medley of lamentations and petitions for mercy.

In any event, Louise Masset was tried and convicted of the murder and, despite a petition for mercy, was executed on 9 January 1900.

A petition for mercy to India's President, Ramaswami Venktaraman, has been filed on behalf of Kehar Singh by a son.

All five received a death sentence on 6 March 1649, but petitions for mercy were presented to parliament, and Norwich's life was spared by the Speaker's casting vote.

Bhullar had appealed against his execution on the grounds that his petition for mercy was kept pending by the President of the country for eight years, an unnecessary delay.

Two men convicted of assassinating Prime Minister Indira Gandhi four years ago have been given until next Wednesday to petition for mercy or face execution by hanging.

Petitions for mercy from both Butter and Stansby survive in the extant records; in his, Stansby places all the blame for the affair on Butter.

Petitions for mercy availed nothing, and these five were tied to a beam like Kaffir dogs yonder at Slagter's Nek, they who had shed the blood of no man.

You are at once the adjudicator, as well as the executioner of the judgement, and so you are both able and qualified to consider my petition for mercy, or even outright pardon."

Therefore I, your miserable slave, desire by this petition for mercy to bring it to your lordship's knowledge that I serve my kind lord as my fathers and forefathers did and pay the taxes every year.

Where oaths and threats had issued from their mouths, now came plaintive petitions for mercy and those who had laughed with such bold braggadocio now wept like young girls, but Elric, full of his old battle-joy, spared none.

According to a Government statement issued without fanfare on April 6, an Islamic holiday, the Pakistani Air Force commander, Chief Marshal Parvaiz Mehdi, pardoned Mr. Baluch after a petition for mercy by his wife.

Pullin would have hanged had it not been for the intervention of more than 7,000 individuals petitioning for mercy on his behalf, on the grounds that he was a young man of good nature who had come to this terrible act due to circumstance.

Subsequently, in response to a petition for mercy to the Governor and council, and although the Lord proprietor had specially given injunction not to allow him to escape with his life, he was pardoned, and, his punishment was reduced to disfranchisement and disqualification for office.

More petitions for pardon were filed by the family but still to no avail.

Nobin was released in 1875, following several public petitions for pardon.

He sent a petition for pardon to the king; and on the 26th he gave a paper with a narrative to the sheriffs.

Ellis continues to campaign to clear his name, in 2011 he announced intention to lodge a fourth petition for pardon with the Governor General.

Some contacted family members of the convicted seditionists, and others researched the law, leading to a petition for pardon being sent to the governor last month.

When I had been here a fortnight, Colonel Wartensleben came, and advised me to petition for pardon.

At the Restoration, Wroth's petition for pardon was granted, but he was removed from the commission of the peace and was deprived of the recordeship in 1662.

Their only prospect of redress, their Lordships understand, will be by way of petition for pardon to the President of the Republic of Singapore."

William J. Murphy, a lawyer for Ms. Cabe, said his client processed hundreds of petitions for pardons and "does not recall how this one came into the White House."

When a petition for pardon is granted, the petitioner or his or her attorney shall be notified of such action and the warrant of pardon shall be mailed to the petitioner.

According to the bibliophile, the king being wearied by the continual petitions for pardon addressed to him by the superintendent's family, ordered them to be told that he was dead, to rid himself of their supplications.

Further to this where a petition for pardons has been made, the Government under Section 8, may establish a Committee to enquire into the subject matter of the petition, however there is no legislative obligation to do so.

In early 2007, there was a widespread public discussion about the granting of pardons in Germany after convicted Red Army Faction terrorist Christian Klar, who was serving six consecutive sentences of life imprisonment, filed a petition for pardon.

After assuring himself that the electors of Dublin "were warmed with the same sentiments in which he left them," he obtained a personal interview with the king in order to petition for pardon, and being favourably received was enabled to return to Dublin, 15 March 1761, on a nolle prosequi.

Petition for Pardon after Completion of Sentence Federal Convictions Only Under the Constitution, the President has the authority to grant pardon for federal offenses, including those obtained in the United States District Courts, the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, and military courts-martial.