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Abu Eita is a former minister and current member of Egypt’s presidential pardon committee, tasked with granting clemency towards some of the tens of thousands of detainees in the Egyptian prison system.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/16/hisham-kassem-leading-critic-egyptian-state-jailed
Another Polunsky inmate, Ronald Prible, writing in support of Young’s bid for clemency, recalled an incident when guards were punishing the person in the adjacent cell by denying food.
Source: https://www.texasobserver.org/christopher-young-death-penalty-mitesh-patel/
Anti-Thaksin groups have petitioned the corrections department to block any attempt to seek a pardon, citing that corruption cases should not receive clemency.
Braun’s award of clemency suggests a two-tiered system of justice, one for friends and family, and another for all the others.
Colman Domingo stars as a prisoner fighting for clemency who also runs and seeks refuge in a theatre group run by inmates.
Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/tiff-2023-must-see-films-1.6955269?cmp=rss
If granted, a pardon would free Perry of a prison sentence, but it does not guarantee the offense will be removed from his criminal record, according to Texas’s clemency process.
In 2020, then-Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam granted Falls clemency, restoring his full rights of citizenship.
In recent days they and activists had delivered letters to Singapore's President Halimah Yacob in a last-minute plea for clemency, while British billionaire Sir Richard Branson had called for a halt of the execution and a review of the case.
In the chaotic final weeks of the Trump presidency, the volume of clemency requests overwhelmed the White House Counsel’s Office.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/26/us/politics/trump-pardon-braun.html
In writing clemency letters, White-Domain says, avoid denying any harm the person may have caused or spelling out the nitty-gritty details of their case: “This is not the space to relitigate what happened.”
It comes in two types: Low Freedom (death, however it might find them) and High Freedom (pardon, commutation or clemency after three years survived on the circuit).
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/books/chain-gang-all-stars-nana-kwame-adjei-brenyah.html
“Let us pray hard that, in the name of mercy, the Indonesian government would grant clemency to Mary Jane Veloso.
Source: https://balita.com/cbcp-backs-calls-for-release-of-mary-jane-veloso/
On February 20th, 2023, a convicted murderer was granted clemency just moments before he was scheduled to be executed in Yemen's central Marib region.
Shortly after receiving clemency, Mills spoke at a U.S. Senate criminal justice forum at the invitation of Sen. Dick Durbin.
Source: https://www.imao.us/2023/05/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed/
Smith told him that she didn't have the same power of clemency that the U.S. president or U.S. governors have, but said she could "ask prosecutors (if) there is a reasonable likelihood of conviction."