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Executive clemency   /ɪgzˈɛkjətɪv klˈɛmənsi/   Listen
Executive clemency

noun
1.
The power (usually of a president or governor) to pardon or commute the sentence of someone convicted in that jurisdiction.





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"Executive clemency" Quotes from Famous Books



... Delaware and Schoharie; and, although unsupported by proof, it was afterward charged and never denied, that, either at the time of their convention or subsequently before the election, Ira Harris produced a letter from John Young in which the latter promised executive clemency in the event of his election. However this may be, it is not unlikely that Harris' relations with the Anti-Renters aided materially in securing Young's indorsement, and it is a matter of record that ...
— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander


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