plea for clemency

They didn't know about his planned dramatic plea for clemency.

She, with the best will in the world, decided that I had no chance if my plea for clemency depended on the physical evidence alone.

Ben must ride to the state's capital after a plea for clemency from the governor is made.

The British government protested the plea for clemency and it was denied.

But the defense was not allowed access to the samples, and the Governor rejected a plea for clemency.

In the eighteenth, her plea for clemency was granted.

Jernigan spent 12 years in prison before his final plea for clemency was denied.

However, most of these sentences were subsequently reduced significantly on appeals or pleas for clemency.

Ms. Bhutto's father was hanged in 1979, despite pleas for clemency from world leaders.

Politicians and religious figures made pleas for clemency, but these were rejected by the Singaporean government.

His plea for clemency was rejected by the President of India in May 2011.

A plea for clemency by the Australian Government was rejected in October 2005.

The ex-hostages also said that if they did testify, it would likely be only to plea for clemency on behalf of their captors.

A plea for clemency from the Dutch government was rejected by the President of Singapore.

Mr. Bhakta's plea for clemency traveled a different route.

Her pleas for clemency were unanswered.

He felt as though he were being tortured, and no visitor to his room had been spared his pleas for clemency.

Mr. Clinton went home earlier this year for the execution of a convicted murderer whose plea for clemency he denied.

Bob Herbert: A plea for clemency.

He stopped at the writing table to lay down the sheaf of papers which constituted Doctor Guyon's plea for clemency.

Mr. Diaz Betancourt went to the firing squad despite pleas for clemency from leaders around the world.

There would be no courts-martial, no pleas for clemency, no pardons by the emperor.

Kamban's anguish-filled plea for clemency falls on deaf ears, as the King orders the death sentence to be carried out.

He was released in 1921 under restrictions after signing a plea for clemency in which he renounced revolutionary activities.

Gov. Gerald L. Baliles refused a plea for clemency last Friday.