Betydelse av clemency på svenska

• 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.