clemency

IPA: kɫˈɛmʌnsi

The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing.
(law) A pardon, commutation, or similar reduction, removal, or postponement of legal penalties by an executive officer of a state.
(now rare) Mildness of weather.

Examples of "clemency" in Sentences

But clemency is a political act, not a judicial one.
Granting clemency is not undermining the rule of law.
He has allegedly asked for clemency from the state, according to the same news report.
The president believes that the pardon attorney should have an opportunity to review this case before a decision on clemency is made.
Elliott, who has dual U.S. and British nationality, is hoping for clemency from the Texas Pardons and Paroles Board after an appeal to the U.S.
Neither compassion nor "mercy," which the Supreme Court as far back as 1855 saw as central to the very idea of clemency, is acknowledged as being of any account.
Enraged at this contempt of what he called his clemency, at Haarlem, Alva resolved to make Alkmaar an example of his cruelty, and he wrote to Philip that everyone in it should be put to the sword.
But the real problem with citing thorough court review as a standard for denying clemency is that none of the 152 executions Bush approved would have landed on his desk had the cases not already passed through all the courts.