The court recommended clemency for Jones; ten days later he received a pardon and was restored to his former rank.

Then, it took only a majority vote of the board to recommend clemency.

The jury finds him guilty, but recommends clemency.

They weren't about to recommend clemency for their enemy but a transfer was something else again.

She was hanged aged 31 in spite of the jury recommending clemency.

The pardon board recommended clemency four times, he said, but governors rejected each recommendation.

The state parole board declined to recommend clemency for 13 women incarcerated for killing people they said had abused them.

The board recommended parole and clemency to the governor, who had final approving authority.

Four pardon boards have recommended clemency, but governors have rejected each recommendation.

Although the jury recommended clemency, Britton sentenced her to hang.