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unusual facts about Clemency


Arboretum de Matton-Clémency

The Arboretum de Matton-Clémency (1 hectare) is an arboretum located in Matton-et-Clémency, Ardennes, Champagne-Ardenne, France.


Austin Sarat

His most recent book, Mercy On Trial: What it Means To Stop an Execution, investigated the use of executive clemency, particularly Illinois Governor George Ryan's decision to commute all impending death sentences in the Illinois state penitentiary system.

Battle of Sahart

These lifted the morale of the restive Christian Ethiopians, and upon arriving in Semien, he was surrounded by the apostates and others who had joined the Imam who sought his clemency.

Campaign to End the Death Penalty

It gained prominence recently with its activity attempting to save Stan "Tookie" Williams, who was executed in California on December 13, 2005, after being denied clemency by governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Castle and Barony of Robertland

Sir Edward Hunter-Blair, 8th Baronet "married" Jonet Clemency Wilson Reid of Robertland daughter of David Wilson Reid of Robertland, Baron of Robertland and Archivist of Glasgow University and his wife Diana Rosamond Angell secretary of the Baronetage of Scotland (1973–1997).

Charles Thomas Wooldridge

In Reading Gaol Wooldridge told the prison chaplain that he was filled with grief and remorse at having killed his beloved wife, and resisted attempts at a reprieve (including a recommendation for clemency from the jury that convicted him) by petitioning the Home Secretary Sir Matthew White Ridley for the sentence to be allowed to be carried out.

Fredrick McGhee

In his law practice, McGhee once won a clemency from President Benjamin Harrison for a client who was a black soldier falsely accused of a crime.

Getachew Abate

In an act of clemency, Haile Selassie told him "I forgive you, but I do not know if God will." Afterwards, Getachew Abate was exiled to remote parts of the Empire, Jimma and Arsi.

Gündüz Tekin Onay

After UNESCO declared 2007 as Year of Rumi, he was achieved the clemency and example behaviour prize by Turkish Football Coaches Association.

Gustav Adolf Nosske

He was the only accused who did not seek clemency from General Lucius D. Clay in the American sector of occupation.

Henry Lee Lucas

In 1998, the Texas Board of Pardon and Parole voted to commute Lucas's death sentence to life imprisonment, in accordance with Governor George W. Bush's request.

Hildebert

He sent letters and poetry to Adela of Normandy advising her on clemency, and praised her regency of Blois.

John Allen Campbell

In the story line, a wanted outlaw, O. C. Coulsen, played by Robert McQueeney, turns himself into Marshal Dan Troop in hopes that Governor Campbell will grant Coulsen clemency because Coulsen had saved the governor's life during the American Civil War.

Käerjeng

The commune of Käerjeng was formed on 1 January 2012 from the former communes of Bascharage and Clemency.

L'esule di Roma

This was an episode from an anecdote about Androcles reported by Aulus Gellius, who had attributed it to Apion: it was replaced by a much more conventional device, Tiberius's clemency.

LaGrand case

Diplomatic efforts, including pleas by German ambassador Jürgen Chrobog and German Member of Parliament Claudia Roth, and the recommendation of Arizona's clemency board, failed to sway Arizona Governor Jane Dee Hull, who insisted that the executions be carried out.

LBC News 1152

Past presenters include: Luisa Baldini, Rick Kelsey, Jamie Shepherd, Douglas Cameron, Peter Deeley, Sandy Warr, James Hirst, Maggie Doyle, James Hartigan, Declan Harvey, Sue Mansfield, Kim Michaels, Russell Hookey, Richard Midson, Clemency Norris, Richard Hakier and Jonathan Savage.

Life imprisonment in Poland

The President of Poland has the power to end the prisoner's life sentence by granting clemency at anytime; however, this has never happened.

Lothar Fendler

As part of the intensified discussion of West German rearmament after the outbreak of the Korean War in the summer of 1950, on 31 January 1951 High Commissioner for Germany John McCloy assessed the 15 death sentences handed down at Nuremberg on the recommendation of the "Advisory Board on Clemency for War Criminals".

Maria Honner

She was excellent in many Shakespearean parts, as well as in Mary in 'Paul the Pilot,' Susan in 'Kohal Cave,' Felix in the 'French Revolution,' Blanche in 'Blanche Heriot,' and Clemency in Charles Dickens's 'The Battle of Life.'

Martin Grossman

In the days before his execution, there were a large number of appeals for clemency, ranging from petitions to pleas, as well as a request to halt the execution from Pope Benedict XVI.

Nicholas Ingram

The Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, was one of many who campaigned unsuccessfully for clemency.

Percy Ellingsen

Following his VFL career, Ellingsen moved to the Victorian Football Association (VFA) in 1920 where he was suspended for a season, a sentence later overturned as an act of clemency during the visit of the Prince of Wales.

Ragnar Skancke

As all calls for clemency were rejected Skancke was executed by firing squad at Akershus Fortress on 28 August 1948, the last person to be executed in Norway, which has since abolished the death penalty for all crimes, including war crimes and treason.

Real Soon

The song was recorded on the behalf of and to support the clemency for Stanley Tookie Williams.

RedRobe

The Cardinal agrees to grant clemency if Axl returns to his service, an offer he can't refuse but one with serious consequences.

Sarah-Jane and Anna Flannagan

The newspaper accounts also recorded the subsequent determination that Anna Flannagan was experiencing mental illness and needed to be admitted to Sunnyside Hospital from Lyttelton Gaol in 1892, as well as that of the appeal to William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow (the Governor General of New Zealand) for clemency in parliamentary official records, and a subsequent petition that requested the release of Anna Flannagan from Sunnyside in 1894.

Seán Mac Eoin

In June 1921 Wilson was petitioned for clemency by MacEoin's mother (who referred to her son as "John" in her letter), by his own brother Jemmy, and by the local Church of Ireland vicar, and passed on the appeals out of respect for the latter two individuals.

Tony Burke

Whilst in opposition, Burke led an unsuccessful bipartisan appeal for clemency to the Singapore High Commissioner to stop the execution of convicted Australian drug smuggler, Van Tuong Nguyen.

Yong Vui Kong v. Public Prosecutor

Following this case, the appellant Yong Vui Kong unsuccessfully challenged the process by which the President grants clemency to convicted persons on the advice of the Cabinet.

He sought, among other things, a declaration that it is the President and not the Cabinet that has discretion as to whether Yong's petition for clemency should be granted, and an order to grant Yong an indefinite stay of execution.

Yossi Gestetner

In early 2010, Gestetner led a PR effort in a campaign asking then-Florida Governor Charlie Crist to grant a 60-day clemency to Martin Grossman to make times for a court appeal.


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