"petition" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They would not comment Sunday on the separate clemency petition, an effort to have the sentence commuted to life in prison.
- While the clemency petition was pending before the governor, Williams also filed further appeals in the courts.
- As a private lawyer, he had filed two clemency petitions during Republican administrations, winning one.
- The presentation should be requested at the time the clemency petition is filed.
- However, she has had a change of heart, and is now supporting Noel's clemency petition.
- She argued that the state should consider this - the same way the jury considered her trial testimony - when deciding on his clemency petition.
- Last August, the board voted 10 to 6 against his clemency petition, a close margin considering that many votes are unanimous.
- But we put more pressure on the Governor than he previously felt in any of these clemency petitions.
- The governor can act upon this belief in reviewing the clemency petitions of both boys.
- In some cases such as capital punishment, the decision may be passed on to the President of the Republic for clemency petitions.
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