executive clemency

1. 1.

   the power (usually of a president or governor) to pardon or commute the sentence of someone convicted in that jurisdiction

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Questions about executive clemency

What does executive clemency mean?

executive clemency means "the power (usually of a president or governor) to pardon or commute the sentence of someone convicted in that jurisdiction".

Is executive clemency a common word?

executive clemency is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.