How to Use clemency in a Sentence

clemency

noun

• The President has granted clemency to several people this month.
• The clemency board in March also agreed to wipe out fines.
  — Christine Sexton, sun-sentinel.com, 16 June 2021
• Still worried that the deal could fall apart at the last minute, Biden waited to sign Bout’s clemency until the last minute.
  — Peter Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2022
• Dorsey, who had requested clemency, thanked those who tried to save his life.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 9 Apr. 2024
• Barack Obama didn’t take any clemency action in his first two years.
  — Aamer Madhani, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2023
• West has been working to free Hoover for some time now, having asked Donald Trump in 2018 to grant Hoover clemency.
  — Katie Song, Variety, 20 Nov. 2021
• Mendez said the Board received a letter from Redmond's children asking the state not to grant any form of clemency.
  — Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2022
• The White House announced Thursday that Montes, 37, has been granted clemency.
  — Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
• At just over 50 days in office, Biden has not granted clemency to anyone thus far.
  — Savannah Behrmann, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2021
• Over the years, former FBI agents have pushed back against Peltier's claim of innocence and bid for clemency.
  — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 24 Mar. 2022
• Trump issued clemency for both Stone and Flynn between the election and Jan. 6, Raskin said.
  — CBS News, 13 July 2022
• Both men were granted clemency by Biden before the release.
  — Eric Tucker, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2022
• But the governor has not sought to use his clemency power to reduce any of the current death sentences to life in prison.
  — Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2022
• That was the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history.
  — Will Weissert The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 18 Jan. 2025
• The move, announced last week, marks the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history.
  — Emma Withrow, Baltimore Sun, 19 Dec. 2024
• His lawyer, Kacey Keeton, is working to seek clemency from the governor.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw | [e-mail], al, 26 Jan. 2023
• In its statement the family rebuffed the clemency push.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
• Gascón on Wednesday urged Newsom to grant clemency for the Menendez brothers.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 30 Oct. 2024
• Scott did say that those defendants could go through the clemency process as allowed under law.
  — Adam Brewster, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2022
• Only the president can grant clemency to those who violate the city’s laws.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
• Over the years, at least four of those who received clemency or their families had donated to Aleph.
  — New York Times, 21 Mar. 2021
• The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles is considering clemency.
  — CBS News, 14 May 2021
• The New York Times was first to report on the timing of the clemency requests being considered by the President.
  — Christina Carrega, CNN, 19 May 2021
• Joe Biden handed out his first grants of clemency as president.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2022
• The bigger picture: This is one of the nation’s most sweeping acts of clemency involving cannabis.
  — Jamie Ross, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
• He was granted clemency by President Ronald Reagan the next year, at age 27.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
• Parson has not granted clemency on a death penalty case.
  — Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 12 Feb. 2024
• The two men kept in touch, and in August 2021, Mr. Gibbs wrote a heartfelt letter to the governor requesting clemency.
  — Jeffery C. Mays, New York Times, 4 May 2024
• His first steps to freedom came last fall, when the state parole board recommended clemency for Shabazz.
  — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2023
• That’s because the record-breaking act of clemency issued by the former president mainly commuted sentences, rather than completely pardoning the offense.
  — Kate Linderman, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 27 Feb 2025