The guards set up a portable typewriter in the stockroom, and I became a jailhouse lawyer, writing clemency appeals for my fellow prisoners.

His "numerous statements against capital punishment were so well known that prisoners on North Carolina's death row pointedly referred to them in their clemency appeals."

In 2010, a clemency appeal for full remission on humanitarian grounds was made to the Indonesian President which cited her reported deteriorating mental health.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has twice rejected clemency appeals, most recently on Monday.

On 16 July, a clemency appeal was rejected by the Presidium of the National Assembly.

A clemency appeal was rejected by General Walther von Brauchitsch.

Mr. Clinton rejected his final clemency appeal.

In November 1925, Eriksson wrote his first clemency appeal, which was denied.

All four of the clemency appeals to pass his desk since then have been denied.

At the time the case was pending, legislation had been introduced in Texas that would require the board to consider clemency appeals in public meetings.