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What does clemency mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word clemency? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing.
  2. (law) A pardon, commutation, or similar reduction, removal, or postponement of legal penalties by an executive officer of a state.
  3. (now rare) Mildness of weather.
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Personally, I'm opposed to the death penalty, but I can't understand why this person deserves it less than others who don't get clemency.
I chose not to point out the negligible cost of such an economic crime to them, but continued to grovel for clemency.
The death row inmate says that he's reformed and his supporters believe he deserves clemency.
Given these numbers it is clear that clemency was marginal to the criminal justice system.
He was freed on Friday after being granted royal clemency and immediately announced that he had been forced into confessing to the bombings.
In effect, he argues that indiscriminate clemency for murderers perverts both justice and mercy.

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