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Jones then applied to the State Board of Pardons and Parole for commutation of the sentence to life imprisonment, which was denied.
It was here that we found the four petitions that sought pardon or commutation of his death penalty.
If he granted a blanket commutation, it would be just to make it life in prison without parole.
Still, four governors have turned down Williams's application for a commutation of his sentence.
We've asked for a commutation to straight life which would give Stacey a chance for parole after 15 years.
The president can stop executions by granting executive clemency or a commutation of the sentence.
From their own pocket and without any access to commutation or pension entitlements.
This discussion has not covered commutation of the construction stages, another important property of the PDN-theorem.
Very many DC motors have built-in commutation, meaning that as the motor rotates, mechanical brushes automatically commutate coils on the rotor.
By 1129-30 it is clear that a widespread commutation into money rents had taken place.
They have called for the commutation of the death sentences to life imprisonment.
Anyone sentenced to death shall have the right to seek pardon or commutation of the sentence.
It should also consider the commutation of the death sentences of all those currently on death row.
Motors with graphite commutation and brushless motors have separate motor leads and higher motor current is allowed.
It has EUROCONNECTOR with the controlled commutation signal, as well as a composite synchronism output.
Although a pardon was requested automatically, the lapse of time made it easier for the victims to accept commutation.
The powder is usually fabricated by the mechanical commutation of vacuum-cast ingots of magnesium-reduced beryllium pebbles or electrolytically produced beryllium flakes.
A similar provision covers the issue of pardon or commutation of sentence.
Each state has its own procedure for requesting a pardon or commutation.
Recently leaving an event, Schwarzenegger was asked by a reporter for a comment on the Nunez commutation.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The commutation of pensions was an experiment of the most benevolent intention.
Statutory provision has been made for the commutation of these duties, and they have now almost disappeared.
The other prisoner for the same offences received the same sentence and commutation.
I tell you I get a comfortable conscience by an easy system of commutation.
The left-hand upper waistcoat pocket holds a pencil, a commutation ticket and a pipe cleaner.
The commutation of his death sentence had been due to some doubts as to his complete sanity, so atrocious was his conduct.
Its value consisted in the pensions he received as a sort of commutation.
It is also called the commutation method and the columnar method.
Further, on 2nd April, he proposed a commutation of the Land Tax.
Her father was in banishment, the commutation of a sentence of death.
His great anxiety was whether he should lose his commutation.
In 2002, there were 3,692 death row inmates waiting to be executed nationally, and prior to the blanket commutation in Illinois by former Gov.
A pardon is an official act of forgiveness that removes civil liabilities stemming from a criminal conviction, while a commutation reduces or eliminates a person's sentence.
Not even the unlooked-for commutation of his sentence to transportation for fourteen years, softened for an instant the sullen hardihood of his demeanour.
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