Clemency Or Executive Clemency: Act of grace or mercy by the president or governor to ease the consequences of a criminal act, accusation, or conviction. (Sometimes known as commutation or pardon.) ...
Executive Clemency
n. the power of a President in federal criminal cases, and the Governor in state convictions, to pardon a person convicted of a crime, ...
CLEMENCY: Clemency is leniency or compassion shown towards convicted offenders by those empowered to administer justice.
CLEMENCY. The disposition to treat with leniency. See Mercy; Pardon.
Clemency
In Canada, clemency is granted by the Governor-General of Canada or the Governor in Council (the federal cabinet) under the Royal Prerogative of Mercy.
Clemency
Definition - Noun
1 : willingness or ability to moderate the severity of a punishment (as a sentence)
2 : an act or instance of mercy, compassion, or forgiveness
see also amnesty commute pardon reprieve ...
executive clemency
n. the power of a President in criminal cases to pardon a person convicted of a crime, commute the sentence (shorten it, often to time already served) or reduce it from death to another lesser sentence.
Pardon - a form of clemency, granted by the governor.
Parole - supervised conditional release of a prisoner. Applies to prison inmates sentenced before the Structured Sentencing Laws were enacted in 1994.
There is, however, this difference; grace is the generic term; pardon, according to those laws, is the clemency which the prince extends to a man who has participated in a crime, without being a principal or accomplice; ...
Pardon: A form of executive clemency preventing criminal prosecution or removing or extinguishing a criminal conviction.
Parens Patriae: The doctrine under which the court protects the interests of a juvenile.
If they are legal in all respects he sends the proceedings to the Army Council, upon whom rests the duty of advising the sovereign regarding the exercise of clemency.
It is not a matter of right, but rather is an act of grace and clemency available only to those defendants found eligible by the court.
 See also: Act, Law, State, Sentence, Convict
  
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