Here stooping to your clemency,

2. Appeals and Petitions for Clemency

Clemency following conviction may always be petitioned to the Amir.

Appeals for clemency should provide effective opportunities to safeguard lives.

According to the information provided by OSCE, in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, cases of persons sentenced to death are automatically considered by the Clemency Commission irrespective of whether the person concerned seeks clemency.

The Government also responded that he had sworn an affidavit stating that he did not wish to petition the President of Singapore for clemency, but that his sister had appealed to the President, and that that appeal for clemency had been turned down.

During the five year period, 20 death sentences were confirmed following the conclusion of the appeal clemency process.

The defendant apos s right to seek pardon, commutation of the sentence or clemency must also be guaranteed.

(b) Providing for mandatory appeals or review with provisions for clemency or pardon in all cases of capital offence

Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious unto thee, I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few words.

Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious unto thee, I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few words.

The death sentence was confirmed by the Supreme Court and given the magnitude of his crimes his appeal for clemency was not accepted.

The Committee refused to accept the State's explanation that it was inappropriate for counsel to submit a communication after rejection of their application for Presidential clemency.

What does not yet seem to have registered with Jokowi, or with enough of his fellow citizens, is the incongruity of refusing even to consider clemency for those on Indonesia's death row, while lobbying passionately for clemency for more than 200 Indonesians condemned to die elsewhere, notably in the Gulf. Decency can be credibly demanded of others only if one practices it oneself.

Aware of the commutation of the author apos s death sentence on 16 March 1995, the Committee considers that a further measure of clemency would be appropriate.

Questions were also asked about the appeal and clemency process and whether there was any discussion or research relating to the question of abolition of the death penalty.

There have been further reports of executions having taken place between 1999 and 2003 while petitions for clemency or review by an international body have been under way.

According to the information received, Badri Zarandia had no right of appeal and his only recourse against execution was to petition the President for clemency (24 June 1996).

The fact that the Clemency Commission, headed by the President of Lithuania, has in practice suspended executions of persons sentenced to death is also welcomed by the Committee.

Even when intended to establish conditions conducive to a peace agreement or to foster national reconciliation, amnesty and other measures of clemency shall be kept within the following bounds

However, a final recourse open to him is to Petition for Clemency to the President for inter alia a pardon or the commutation of the sentence imposed to a lesser sentence.

The death penalty is in place for a limited number of especially serious crimes, and every individual who is sentenced to death has the right to appeal the sentence and to petition for clemency.

In 1995, at the initiative of the President of Georgia, death penalties were suspended. In July of 1997, 54 prisoners, sentenced to death, received Presidential clemency, commuting their sentence to 20 years of imprisonment (A 52 262).

His delegation could not accept the recommendation for a moratorium on capital punishment. India was in a special situation because the death penalty still existed but was only very rarely applied moreover, strong remedies existed, including presidential clemency.

Many of the journalists and opposition figures were eventually released or granted clemency, but there has been no letup to the torment. In late April 2009, security forces arrested 40 opposition figures, accusing them of trying to topple the government.

(c) Sentenced to death without resorting to their right to lodge any legal or clemency appeal Guinevere García, who was also reported to suffer from severe personality disorders James B. Clark (9 April 1996) and Douglas Wright (12 August 1996)

States should provide in their national legislation a period of at least six months so as to allow a reasonable amount of time for the preparation of appeals to courts of higher jurisdiction and petition for clemency before a death sentence is executed.

Officials responsible for carrying out an execution order should be fully informed of the state of appeals and petitions for clemency of the prisoner in question, and should not proceed to an execution if an appeal or other recourse procedure is still pending.

In this regard, it was observed that mechanisms for executive clemency did not constitute an adequate means of redress because such measures were different from judicial remedies, tended towards confidentiality or secrecy, and excluded standards of legal due process and equality of the parties.

No information on the outcome is published in Belarus and very few acts of clemency appear to have been granted in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan or Tajikistan prior to the establishment of moratoriums on executions, or in Uzbekistan, although no official statistics have ever been published.

(e) Also called upon Member States in which the death penalty might be carried out to ensure that officials involved in decisions to carry out an execution were fully informed of the status of appeals and petitions for clemency of the prisoner in question

435. The Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of John Martin, a British national sentenced to death in Singapore for murder, who decided not to appeal against the sentence nor to submit a petition for clemency to the President (16 April 1996).

6. Also calls upon Member States in which the death penalty may be carried out to ensure that officials involved in decisions to carry out an execution are fully informed of the status of appeals and petitions for clemency of the prisoner in question

A preoccupying issue that continues to be brought to the Special Rapporteur apos s attention concerns decisions by defendants who have been sentenced to death not to appeal to a higher jurisdiction or to request clemency or pardon, and to accept the imposition of the death penalty.

During his 21 years behind bars, Memon exhausted every possible appeal available to him, including one for presidential clemency. The Supreme Court even held an emergency hearing at 2 30 in the morning, just hours before the execution was set to occur, before deciding to allow it to proceed.

Even before Estrada s conviction, opinion polls showed that 48 of Filipinos wanted clemency, if not a guaranteed pardon from Arroyo. More than 80 said Estrada should be allowed to languish in a lush private family vacation home where he already spent the last six years awaiting his verdict.

It further notes the State party's contention that the death sentence shall be carried out not earlier than one (1) year nor later than eighteen (18) months after the judgement has become final and executory, without prejudice to the exercise by the President of his executive clemency powers at all times .

385. During the period under review, the Working Group clarified the two outstanding cases of disappearance in Turkmenistan, based on information provided by the Government in which it was reported that the persons concerned had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment, but had subsequently been granted clemency by the President.

287. The Special Rapporteur transmitted an urgent appeal to the Government of Jordan on behalf of Mustafa Sulaiman apos Abd al Latif Abu Hamid, whose death sentence was reportedly confirmed by the Court of Cassation on 12 June 1996 and was reportedly being considered for clemency by King Hussein bin Talal.

516. In this context the Special Rapporteur sent three urgent appeals to the Government of Ukraine for the following persons, who were reportedly facing imminent execution after their appeal for clemency had been turned down by the President of Ukraine Vitaly Gumenyuk (24 April 1996), Aleksey Vedmedenko (17 July 1996) and Sergey Tekuchev (18 July 1996).

Internationally, concern has been growing about Jokowi's stated determination to allow after a long moratorium the executions of scores of convicted drug traffickers to proceed. His stance reflects no consideration of whether their individual cases might justify clemency, as well as apparent indifference to mounting evidence that sentencing in capital cases might have owed less to a case's merits than to the presence or absence of bribes.

The Federation was unable to ascertain whether the clemency procedures were observed with regard to five persons executed in 2003.22 The Human Rights Committee expressed concern about the elimination of the right to seek a pardon or commutation of sentence in Guatemala, noting that the President had nevertheless exercised his right to grant pardons based on the precedence of international treaties over domestic law.

(d) Called upon Member States in which the death penalty might be carried out to allow adequate time for the preparation of appeals to a court of higher jurisdiction and for the completion of appeal proceedings, as well as petitions for clemency, in order to effectively apply rules 5 and 8 of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty

5. Calls upon Member States in which the death penalty may be carried out to allow adequate time for the preparation of appeals to a court of higher jurisdiction and for the completion of appeal proceedings, as well as petitions for clemency, in order to effectively apply rules 5 and 8 of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty

In this context, the Special Rapporteur strongly shares the view expressed by the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 1989 64 of 24 May 1989 entitled Implementation of the safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty , in which the Council recommended that Member States provide for mandatory appeals or review with provisions for clemency or pardon in all cases of capital offence.