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Research Volume 34 Number 6 November 2006 825-846 © 2006 Sage Publications 10.1177/1532673X06291674 The Political Roots of http://apr.sagepub.com hosted at Executive Clemency http://online.sagepub.com ...
. After a speedy trial, several stays of execution , and a clemency appeal to the governor of New York, Cox was executed in July of 1880, a little more than a year after the crime. From the discovery ...
the Revolution the loyalists “experienced much clemency from the opposite party, yet, perhaps not in the full latitude that policy might have dictated” (Ingersoll, 1). Warren admitted that while some patriots ...
, fell prey to such logics. In the end, however, radical discourses of redemption also created a point of legitimation for the state's decision to execute Williams, revealing redemption as an ambivalent ...
political commitment and solidarity. The civil executions of revolutionaries expose the collapsing hierarchies and diminishing moral and judicial authority of the autocracy in the reign of Alexander II ...
of an outright judicial victory. For example, a dissenting opinion by an appellate judge would exert an enormous effect on public opinion and increase the likelihood of executive clemency . “My conception ...
POWs, the trial and verdicts were tainted by gross investigative and prosecutorial misconduct. Lurid reports of savage beatings, death threats, mock trials and executions , and extorted confessions ...
, the strangers who ate them, weakened the English body politic : LINCOLN: They bring in strange roots , which is merely to the undoing of poor prentices. For what’s a sorry parsnip to a good heart? WILLIAMSON ...
the underlying political logic behind the various sentencing techniques for restricting the use of capital punishment to the “most deserving” offenders. I. Defining the Eligibility for Execution : Institutional ...
or use of explosives). The laws passed before 2004 (1995 Law of Clemency /Rahma and the 1999 Law of Civil Concord) recognized that certain individuals and groups had carried out political violence ...
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