... taken by British Government to try to secure clemency for those sentenced at Baghdad Trials. Internal political ...
1958 - Gale Group | ArchivesUnbound Iraq
... INTRODUCTION This Article discusses the role of executive clemency in light of the current political environment. Attending ... into the trends in the use of executive clemency. Focusing particularly on the form of clemency decision made by a governor after a non- ... popular opinion to encourage the granting of more clemency requests in capital cases. In Herrera v. Collins, ... the executive branch through the mechanism of executive clemency.1 Executive clemency, justice Rehnquist declared, is the fail-safe in ...
Tópico(s): Law, Rights, and Freedoms
2003 - University of Texas School of Law | Texas journal on civil liberties & civil rights
Moroccan and Tunisian Governments likely to appeal for clemency to be shown in trial of Dr Jamali. ...
1958 - Gale Group | ArchivesUnbound Iraq
Clemency is an extrajudicial measure intended both to enhance fairness in the administration of justice, and allow ... number of defendants removed from death row through clemency call for a better and deeper understanding of clemency authority and its application. Questions about whether clemency decisions are consistently and fairly distributed are particularly ... study uses 27 years of death penalty and clemency data to explore the influence of defendant characteristics, political factors, and clemency's structure on clemency decisions. The results suggest ...
Tópico(s): Legal and Constitutional Studies
2003 - University of Virginia | Virginia Law Review
... send letter to P.M. Kassem appealing for clemency for two officers sentenced in Baghdad Trials. Internal ...
1958 - Gale Group | ArchivesUnbound Iraq
... granting of pardons, reprieves, and other manifestations of clemency power have been variously described as entirely discretionary,( ... of Due Process Clause.(8) Academic discussions of clemency power typically trace its interesting origins and transformation ... 9) Other scholars have focused on exercise of clemency in such areas of law as death penalty,( ... highly publicized, controversial cases.(11) Current examinations of clemency power do however share two common characteristics. They ... with respect to origins and development of executive clemency in United States and explains procedural guidelines for ...
Tópico(s): Legal Systems and Judicial Processes
1997 - Wiley | Presidential Studies Quarterly
... Government to encourage other countries to appeal for clemency for those sentenced in Baghdad Trials. Internal political ...
1958 - Gale Group | ArchivesUnbound Iraq
This Article argues for transparency in the clemency process and contends that the concept of clemency as a benign sovereign’s “act of grace” is no longer appropriate in the modern ... process and administrative equity. Despite calls for federal clemency reform in the United States, little comparative research examines clemency elsewhere in the common law world. This Article compares common law countries’ constitutional clemency mechanisms designed to promote openness, public and victim ... making structure (Part I); allowing judicial review of clemency decisions (Part II); applying freedom of information laws ...
Tópico(s): Law, Rights, and Freedoms
2016 - University of Michigan Law School | University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Danish Minister to Ankara is to appeal for clemency on behalf of those sentenced in Baghdad Trials. ...
1958 - Gale Group | ArchivesUnbound Iraq
... murder or acquit him, and may unanimously recommend clemency if they find him guilty. It matters which ... him guilty and only six then vote for clemency, some among the six may wish they had ... they'd rather see in jail. If the clemency vote is taken first, the result to be ... they later find him guilty, some who oppose clemency may vote for it to secure unanimity when ... him guilty. If the rules do not permit clemency to be taken up before a man is found guilty, some jurors may announce themselves for clemency to induce a unanimous vote of guilty. And ...
Tópico(s): Game Theory and Applications
1965 - Oxford University Press | Social Problems
Pleas for clemency for Dr Jamali and his fellow prisoners. Internal political situation in Iraq. 11/11/1958. FO 371/133072- ...
1958 - Gale Group | ArchivesUnbound Iraq
... as an account of its connections to On Clemency. Nussbaum’s discussion of the occasion and purpose ... unwieldy list of the contents (On Anger, On Clemency, The Pumpkinification of Claudius the God). Revenge is ... the volume, as Kaster entitles his translation On Clemency. Comparisons with randomly selected passages in the Latin ... Kaster’s translations are extremely accurate. He uses “clemency” for clementia throughout, a surprisingly rare choice among ... a nice continuity between On Anger and On Clemency is added when Kaster renders deprecator animus accessit ...
Tópico(s): Classical Antiquity Studies
2011 - University of Toronto Press | Mouseion Journal of the Classical Association of Canada
Message from General Renton appealing for clemency for those sentenced in Baghdad Trials. Internal political situation in Iraq. 11/11/1958. FO 371/133072-0011. English. Book.
1958 - Gale Group | ArchivesUnbound Iraq
Acknowledgments xi Chapter 1: Mercy, Clemency, and Capital Punishment 1 The Illinois Story Chapter 2: Capital Clemency in the Twentieth Century 33 Putting Illinois in Context Chapter 3: The Jurisprudence of Clemency 69 What Place for Mercy? Chapter 4: Governing Clemency 94 From Redemption to Retribution Chapter 5: Clemency without Mercy 116 George Ryan's Dilemma Chapter ... Ryan: 163 I Must Act Appendix B: Capital Clemency, 1900-2004 181 Commutations by State Appendix C: Chronology of Capital Clemency, 1900-2004 189 Commutations by Governor Notes 259 ...
Tópico(s): American Constitutional Law and Politics
2006 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
... neutral member of the U.N. appeal for clemency for those sentenced in Baghdad Trials. Internal political ...
1958 - Gale Group | ArchivesUnbound Iraq
... Discretion 1339 1. Jury Nullification 1340 2. Executive Clemency 1345 3. Prosecutorial Discretion 1351 II. THE CENTRALITY ... longer sentences. (3) Presidential and gubernatorial grants of clemency are rare events. The use of jury nullification ... of the unreviewable power to be merciful--executive clemency and jury nullification--are currently looked upon with ... important reason for the decline in nullification and clemency that should not be discounted or ignored, it ... Essay explains, skepticism about jury nullification and executive clemency has its roots in another development as well: ...
Tópico(s): Legal Education and Practice Innovations
2008 - Harvard Law Review Association | Harvard Law Review
Lebanese Minister in Baghdad is to appeal for clemency on behalf of Dr Jamali. Internal political situation ...
1958 - Gale Group | ArchivesUnbound Iraq
Clemency in capital cases today has become quite rare. Capital clemency has been a victim of the rejection of ... Yet despite the reluctance of governors to grant clemency, despite the difficulty of rectifying miscarriages of justice through the clemency process, petitions seeking commutation or pardon in death ... an empty ritual. In this article, I examine clemency petitions from Texas and Virginia, and I argue ...
Tópico(s): Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
2008 - Cambridge University Press | Law & Society Review
On various examples of royal tyranny; by implication a satire on George III & his American policy. Book.
0000 - Gale Group | Sabin
... significant racial disparities in punishment, the disuse of clemency means no possibility of exit for those who ... examines the origins, history, and philosophical underpinnings of clemency in the United States, focusing on the delicate ... contributed to the almost total failure of the clemency process in Massachusetts in recent years. The Note argues for the revitalization of executive clemency as a means of achieving optimal justice in ... it suggests changes to the administration of the clemency process in Massachusetts to achieve that end.
Tópico(s): Judicial and Constitutional Studies
2007 - | Boston College Third World law journal
Book.
1944 - Gale Group | World Scholar Latin America
"At the Boundaries of Law: Executive Clemency, Sovereign Prerogative, and the Dilemma of American Legality" In this essay the author examines the issue of borders and borderlands in regard ... up one example of sovereignty prerogative, namely executive clemency, and examines its treatment in and by law. Executive clemency provides an arena in which to examine how ... predictability and constraint. In its dealings with executive clemency, law authorizes a kind of lawlessness, or acknowledges ... power cannot be contained. In the jurisprudence of clemency we find lawÕs borderland and, as in all ...
Tópico(s): Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
2005 - Johns Hopkins University Press | American Quarterly
Book.
0000 - Gale Group | The Making of Modern World
... to a term of imprisonment through grants of clemency by the executive has varied remarkably between these ... of death row prisoners often (for example, the clemency ‘rate’ of 91-92 per cent witnessed in Thailand), others rarely (a clemency ‘rate’ of around 1 per cent in Singapore), ... to explore the discrepancies and similarities in capital clemency practice between these five Southeast Asian jurisdictions. In ... structural and cultural reasons why retentionist countries exercise clemency at vastly different ‘rates’ in finalised capital cases.
Tópico(s): Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
2014 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
R. M. L., A. K., J. M. P., J. H. Buchnan, R. S. M., J. E. N., P. H. Nelson, R. L., Robert Lide, B. Anderson, A. G. F., D. M. H., T. R. T., Grant Hamilton, John G. Whittier, O. A. Furber, C. M. Harger, George Grantham Bain, Coulson Kernahan,
... the Most Notable Journalistic Organization on This Continent, Clemency in Columbia Sharp Lawyers Practice Their Arts on ... on the 1st of May, McKinley's First Clemency Further Time Extended to Four Murderes in New ...
1897 - Gale Group | SAS Part 1
... for capital punishment continues to wane over time, clemency for death row inmates is all but extinct. Moreover, what little clemency activity that persists continues to distribute unevenly across ... extremely reluctant to review – let alone interfere with – clemency activity, little, if any, formal legal recourse exists. Results from this study of clemency activity on state death rows (1973-2010) suggest ... extent that our criminal justice system relies on clemency to function as coherent extrajudicial check.
Tópico(s): American Constitutional Law and Politics
2014 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
W. R. Carles, Geo. Phillips, H. E. Hobson, W. A. P. Martin, F. Hirth, H. B. Morse, H. B. Morse, M. Goebel, H. B. Morse, H. B. Morse,
... in Europe, A Tablet to the Valour and Clemency of the Ta T'Sing Emperor, Bye-Laws ... to the Society, A Corean Monument to Manchu Clemency (Read before the Society 22nd October 1888), Minutes ...
1888 - Gale Group | NCCO AsiaWest
... almost no empirical research on whether federal executive clemency is in any way patterned in a manner ... or even 'seasonal' pardons. Furthermore, previous research on clemency from 1789 to 1933 suggests the months of ... granting of presidential pardons. This analysis explores 'seasonal clemency' in monthly data from January of 1931 to ... including George W. Bush) have skewed grants of clemency toward this part of the year. Having presented ... these trends and troubling ramifications for federal executive clemency in the United States.
Tópico(s): Religion and Society Interactions
2013 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
Victoria McKee, Phil Yates, Arthur Leathley, Transport Correspondent, Vaughan Bishop, Tunku Varadarajan, Jon Ashworth, Raymond Snoddy Media Editor, Nick Nuttall, Kevin Ferrie, John White, Heidi Kingstone, Bill Frost, Julian Lee, Joanna Bale and Jon Ashworth, Clare McGlynn and Tilly Rubens, Joanna Bale and Joa Ashworth, Gavin Lumsden, Philip Howard, Carol Midgley, John Cordwell (Deputy Chairman), Michael Binyon and Philip Webster, Peyton Skipwith, Master, Bronwen Jones, Clive Davis, Josephine Carr, Carl Mortished, Gareth Watkins, Simon Wilde, Roger Maynard, Christine Buckley Industrial Correspondent, Robert Sheehan, Bridge Correspondent, Thunderer, Marit Hargle, Derek Matthews, Joe Joseph, Martin Fletcher, Noel Falconer, Julian Grainger, Councilor, Pat Gibson, Peter Capella, Dominic Walsh, Ruth Gledhill, Peter Saunders, Raymond Keene Chess Correspondent, John Street, Jo Baker, Alan Williams, Jason Niss?, Libby Purves, Charmian Whitmell, News in Brief, Stephen Farrell, Robin Young, Ian Murray, Medical Correspondent, Rodney Milnes, Jon Ashworth and Christine Buckley, Michael Clark, Anatole Kaletsky, Janet Bush, Marianne Curphey, Insurance Correspondent, David Hands, Luke Clancy, Jasper Gerard, Russell Kempson, Helen Bamber, Director, Nicholas Watt Political Correspondent, Julian Cotterell, Daniel McGrory, Richard Cork, Michael Theodoulou, Paul Sexton, Raymond Keene, John Russell Taylor, Matt Dickinson, Bronwen Maddox, Jill Sherman, Oliver Holt, M. L. West, Damian Whitworth, Marc Weller, Roger Boyes, John Stern, Philip Webster, Political Editor, Rodney Hobson, Adam Fresco, Nicholas Wood, Valerie Elliott, Whitehall Editor, John Allison, Christopher Thomas, Nick Szczepanik, Giles Whittell, Christopher Walker, Simon De Bruxelles, Kathryn Knight, Philip Delves Broughton, Kevin McCarra, Matthew Parris, Chris McGrath, Scrivenor, Tessa Keswick, Peter Riddell, Alan Lee Cricket Correspondent, Brian Glanville, Fraser Nelson, D. D. Culley (Chartered accountant), Michael Horsnell, Christine Buckley and Arthur Leathley, Michael Hornsby Countryside Correspondent, From Julian Muscat, Tennis Correspondent, Frances Gibb, Alasdair Murray and Susan Emmett, James Christopher, Neil Cooper, Robin Lodge, Alasdair Murray, Robert Whymant, Richard Miles Banking Correspondent, Jan Raath, Edward Gorman Sailing Correspondent, David Hands, Rugby Correspondent, Colin McQuillan, A. B. MacNab, Christopher Irvine,
... about 'lunatic' official visit to Sri Lanka No clemency for Texas woman Housing plea The Gift of ... Mugabe presses for huge pension Texas board rejects clemency for woman facing execution at midnight Tunku Varadarajan ...
1998 - Gale Group | TDA
... killing of an innocent person. Focusing on executive clemency petitions, the final hope for death row inmates, ... mistakes and miscarriages of justice commonly addressed in clemency petitions - police misconduct and false testimony; overzealous prosecution; ... also probes the decision-making process in evaluating clemency petitions, showing how political and other persuasive forces, ...
Tópico(s): Torture, Ethics, and Law
2003 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online