Decision Quote by Asha Rangappa

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

— Camille Desmoulins

This is a boy's lot: anything he does, anything whatever, may afterward turn out to have been a crime - he never knows. And…

— Booth Tarkington

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.

— Noam Chomsky

Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.

— Philip Sidney

I'm sure that those - well, I know for a fact that the prisoners, the political prisoners in the federal system, is asking [Barack…

— Sekou Odinga

The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.

— Quentin Crisp

“The prospect that a person will be killed according to the policy he promulgates prompts the [priest] to urge clemency, an incomprehensible position logically.”

— Helen Prejean

Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone in prison…

— Robert Falcon Scott

Convictions are prisons.

— Anonymous

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

— Maximilien Robespierre

PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.

— Ambrose Bierce