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What does clemency mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word clemency? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing.
  2. (law) A pardon, commutation, or similar reduction, removal, or postponement of legal penalties by an executive officer of a state.
  3. (now rare) Mildness of weather.
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Without a stay or clemency, Williams will be put to death at midnight Pacific Time.
Given these numbers it is clear that clemency was marginal to the criminal justice system.
He was freed on Friday after being granted royal clemency and immediately announced that he had been forced into confessing to the bombings.
Everyone in the land is slowly coming to respect Gulliver's clemency and kindness.
He expanded his mission, compiling a list of women who might be good candidates for clemency.
He is trying to raise public awareness about her plight in order to win some state-sanctioned clemency, but it might be too late.

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