0 kindness when giving a punishment: --
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: --
Our constituents qualify for clemency on each of those criteria.
We must now await the outcome of the men's clemency petitions.
An appeal for clemency is a request to foreign authorities to exercise such leniency as they can under their own legal and constitutional system.
I am not prepared to recommend any further exercise of clemency in this matter.
The extent to which clemency may properly be exercised is a matter for the authorities.
Would the newspapers have carried editorials pleading for clemency?
They despise clemency as a sign of weakness.
Following an internal review, we have decided to widen our existing criteria for supporting clemency pleas.
