Clemency Quotes

We're continuing to monitor the judicial proceedings. The governor also continues to review Mr. Baird's clemency request. - Jane Jankowski

We can see who was granted clemency and why... The big donors to the President's campaign were able to buy justice, something we just couldn't afford. - Leonard Peltier

We as a country have been dramatically changing our notions about clemency and the death penalty in the past half decade. - Richard Dieter

Two very important and delicate functions, swearing in judges and granting clemency, should not be fulfilled by the president himself in the near future, while he is under investigation by the police. - Yossi Beilin

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty. - Maximilien Robespierre

This is just gratuitous punishment. But this denial is consistent with the governor's practice of denying clemency no matter what the facts of the case are. - Michael Satris

They showed no clemency when they attacked so many innocent people mercilessly, and it's deeply distressing to think that they may have any sort of remission. We as relatives will never get any sort of remission from what happened to our loved ones. - Susanna Miller

There are already a number of people that have already said that they are not going to vote for him, work for him. If he granted clemency, based on the evidence that has been presented, it would be a disaster. - Mike Spence