clemency的意思|clemency的解释-里氏词典

clemency ['klɛmənsɪ]

n. 仁慈, 宽厚, 仁厚

He appealed to the judge for clemency.
他乞求法官开恩.
Mercy or clemency, especially when displayed or given to an enemy.
宽恕仁慈或宽容，尤指对敌人表现出的或施于敌人的
Sometimes clemency is cruelty, and cruelty clemency.
有时候宽厚是残酷，残酷也是宽厚。

clemency

[ noun ]

good weather with comfortable temperatures

<noun.state>

leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice

<noun.act>

he threw himself on the mercy of the court

Clemency \Clem"en*cy\, n.; pl. {Clemencies}. [L. clementia, fr.
clemens mild, calm.]
1. Disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness
of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy.

Great clemency and tender zeal toward their
subjects. --Stowe.

They had applied for the royal clemency. --Macaulay.

2. Mildness or softness of the elements; as, the clemency of
the season.

Syn: Mildness; tenderness; indulgence; lenity; mercy;
gentleness; compassion; kindness.

The state Board of Pardons today rejected a plea for clemency from convicted "Hi-Fi" murderer William Andrews, scheduled to die by injection early Tuesday after nearly 15 years on death row.
The judge who sentenced the Sharpeville Six to hang said Monday he would not reopen their murder trial, but he gave the convicts 35 days to appeal for clemency from President P.W. Botha.
Even Jordan's King Hussein, who joined the Palestine Liberation Organization in appeals for clemency, would not condemn President Saddam Hussein of Iraq.
We expressed our urgent opinion on three particular matters: 1 _ All legal options available in South Africa should be used to secure clemency for the Sharpeville Six.
Shortly after Cuomo granted the clemency, Bush went on the attack.
The governor commuted Dotson's 25- to 50-year rape sentence in 1985 to time served but rejected a request for clemency, saying he did not believe Mrs. Webb's recantation.
The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles also considered a clemency appeal.
On that occasion, Gov. Guy Hunt denied clemency pleas, saying he would not interfere with the verdict of the judicial system.
Ronald Reagan, then the state's governor, and his clemency secretary, Edwin Meese III, declined to intervene to block the execution.
In a case that generated international protest and plea for clemency from the pope, the state Supreme Court has set aside the death penalty for a teen-age killer.
A convicted murderer has flown to Israel after renouncing his citizenship under a special clemency agreement that allowed him to finish his prison term working on a kibbutz.
Russell Leggett, who presided over the trial and has since retired to private practice, has gone on record favoring clemency. The district attorney's office has not commented.
The office of President P.W. Botha said today the matter of clemency is the responsibility of the Justice Department.
Hancock says the system of justice that worked when it convicted Gilbert of murder will work to win him clemency.
But the official, Antonio dos Santos Franca, Angola's deputy defense minister, said "elements" of the guerrilla group had contact with the government about its policy of clemency and national reconciliation, Portuguese Radio Commercial reported.
"If ever there was a case for the state president to exercise his discretion, and grant clemency, this is it," said defense lawyer Prakash Diar.
Pope John Paul II announced last September that he, too, would like to see Cooper granted clemency.
McGivern was granted clemency on New Year's Eve 1985 by Gov. Mario Cuomo, making him eligible for parole.
Other nations had joined the United States in urging clemency, and some denounced China following the executions.
However, clemency is recommended in this case.
He will look at this request in the same way." Gardner, a Democrat, has used his clemency powers only once since taking office in 1984, and that was to commute the sentence of a woman who said she had been battered.
Brown emerges as an opponent of the death penalty in "Public Justice, Private Mercy," the 163-page memoir of his decisions to grant or withhold clemency from prisoners facing death sentences while he was governor from 1959-67.
He said the United States had previously appealed for clemency in the case through public statements, support of a resolution in the United Nations and representations at diplomatic talks in Geneva.
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was "horrified by the severity of the sentence" against Bazoft, a Foreign Office spokesman said. He said she will appeal to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for clemency on humanitarian grounds.
It's time to let him go and make room for more violent criminals." Attorney General Bob Butterworth and Insurance Commissioner Thomas Gallagher also said they will consider clemency when Gilbert's case is heard Sept. 12.
She wrote a letter applying for clemency, but it has not been released.
The leaders of the seven-nation economic summit on Monday said "all legal options available" should be used to secure clemency for six black South Africans who have been condemned to death.
A Western diplomatic source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there has been no suggestion that an appeal for clemency would hasten the Germans' release.
Granted clemency with lengthy jail terms to the Sharpeville Six, a group of blacks sentenced to hang for complicity in a 1984 mob killing.
But at a clemency hearing in 1985 for Bundy in the sorority slayings, Assistant State Attorney Jack Poitinger said, "Bundy is like the plague.

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