Unsure what you are looking for.... DISCRETIONARY (???)
keelhauled that filthy lad and send him down to the depths below. make that basterd walk the plank with a bottle of rum and a yo ho ho
Judicial Duties
Judicial Duties
Judicial Duties
Judicial Duties
noun a person who commutes, especially between home and work. Sentence: The death sentence was commuted, by the commuter, to life imprisonment.
Commutes its death sentence, e.g. "pardons" the turkey and sends it someplace to live out its natural life
Death!Unless your talking about a prison sentence.
Yes, but the sentence was normally to death.
It usually refers to the appeal of a death sentence from someone housed in prison and awaiting the death sentence to be carried out.
No in mates on death row can get a presidential pardonAdded: Insofar as the sentence handed down, yes, they do hae that discretion. Other than that, as stated above, the Governor of the state or (in the case of a federal offense) the President) can commute a sentence of death to one of life imprisonment.
a death sentence
Short of the death penalty it would be life in prison wothout the possibility of parole.
"The death row convict was given a REPRIEVE from the Governor."