noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
grant
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L.. Douglas Wilder, ruling the punishment did not fit the crime, granted Iverson conditional clemency and freed him.
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Wilson is the only one who can grant clemency .
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McCord, now 23, was granted clemency last week after U. S. Rep.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His clemency had earned him the regard of the West and would, surely, last until Twelfth Night.
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In denying him clemency last Friday, Gov.
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Mr Harris had applied for a clemency hearing before the governor, Mr George Deukmejian.
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Presidents Truman and Kennedy, for instance, each granted more than 40 percent of all clemency requests.
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She would have remained in prison until at least 2000 without the clemency .
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The dead policeman's daughter has begged for clemency .