Какво означава clemency на английски?

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clemency Значение & определение

0 kindness when giving a punishment:
- The jury passed a verdict of guilty, with an appeal to the judge for clemency.
1 (of weather) the quality of being pleasant or not severe
2 an act of mercy by a person in authority toward someone who has committed a crime, esp. by reducing a punishment:
- The governor refused to grant him clemency, and he was executed at 9 a.m. yesterday.

If that is rejected, the president can exercise clemency.
We cannot allow the clemency appeal to be considered in isolation: there must be political pressure to accompany it.
Our appeal for clemency has been considered carefully in this case.
Are not those mitigating circumstances that a clemency appeal could consider?
We have made repeated calls for clemency on humanitarian grounds.
He also lodged a strong appeal for clemency for others currently under sentence of death.
I can recall no recent case in which such a strong and unanimous view was expressed across the world in favour of clemency.
Following an internal review, we have decided to widen our existing criteria for supporting clemency pleas.