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442 documents for prerogative of mercy

- Hanging Will Halt Crime - St Kitts Pm
PRIME MINISTER Denzil Douglas says while his government takes no comfort in last Friday's execution of convicted murderer Charles Laplace, it is hopeful that it will serve as deterrent to criminals. In accordance with the Constitution of the Federation of St Christopher and Nevis, the meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Prerogative of Mercy was convened and advised the carrying out of the sentence of the aforementioned Court made on the 30th March 2006, Douglas said. "... We have to be certain that there is a deterrent among our people in taking another man's life.
- Weekly Gleaner, The; North American ed.
- September 02, 2009
- PA Prison Society v. Pedro Cortes, (3rd Cir. 2010)
... exercise of the sovereign's prerogative of mercy. It completely frees the offender ...
- Federal Circuits
- Presidential Prerogative: Imperial Power in the Age of Terrorism.
..., "he must submit his decisions to the mercy of Congress, the courts, and the public" (p. 165)....
- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Vol. 41 Nbr. 3, September 2011

- Constitutional reform and the abolition of the mandatory death penalty in Kenya.
...(193) Overall, the rate of mercy was relatively high; it was not unusual for half o... for an Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy, a pardon and clemency body led by the at...
- Suffolk University Law Review
- Vol. 45 Nbr. 2, March 2012
- McGautha v. California, 402 U.S. 183 (1971)
... punishment is death, unless you recommend mercy, in which event the punishment is imprisonment in ... receive the benefit of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy, observed:. "The difficulty of defining b...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Woodson v. North Carolina, 428 U.S. 280 (1976)
... "We propose that a recommendation of mercy by the jury in capital cases automatically carry w... receive the benefit of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy, observed:. "`The difficulty of defining...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- 'I Put My Fingers Around My Throat and Squeezed It, to Know How It Feels': Antigallows Sentimentalism and E. D. E. N. Southworth's the Hidden Hand
A handful of studies have considered individual authors' interest in the subject, but the only scholar to have investigated the larger literary engagement with this movement is historian David Brion Davis.1 His description of the period's handling of capital punishment approaches what contemporary scholars label sentimentalism, although Davis himself does not use the term.2 For example, he claims that these writers yearned for an emotional and pietistic brotherhood, for an allinclusive love which would embrace the wayward murderer as well as the suffering slave and degraded drunkard, and pursued this aim by arous[ing]..

... implores him to use the "God-like prerogative .. of showing mercy" (20), he turns to some commun...
- Legacy
- Vol. 25 Nbr. 1, April 2008
- Solesbee v. Balkcom, 339 U.S. 9 (1950)
... are here not dealing with the Crown's prerogative of mercy continued through the pardoning power in ...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- The Death Penalty: An American History.
... was thus impressed with both the power and mercy of the state. (12) . Banner confirms our previous ... of profuse exercises of the clemency prerogative. (28) English crowds may have attended executions ...
- Stanford Law Review
- Vol. 56 Nbr. 6, May 2004
- Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Comm. v. McGrath, 341 U.S. 123 (1951)
...". . . [the Commons] respected no prerogative, however ancient, however legitimate, however salu... large exercise of the royal prerogative of mercy could prevent the perpetration of iniquities so ho...
- U.S. Supreme Court