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  1. pardoning

    A pardon is a government decision to allow a person to be relieved of some or all of the legal consequences resulting from a criminal conviction. A pardon may be granted before or after conviction for the crime, depending on the laws of the jurisdiction.Pardons can be granted in many countries when individuals are deemed to have demonstrated that they have "paid their debt to society", or are otherwise considered to be deserving of them. In some jurisdictions of some nations, accepting a pardon may implicitly constitute an admission of guilt; the offer is refused in some cases. Cases of wrongful conviction are in recent times more often dealt with by appeal rather than by pardon; however, a pardon is sometimes offered when innocence is undisputed in order to avoid the costs that are associated with a retrial. Clemency plays a critical role when capital punishment exists in a jurisdiction. Pardons are sometimes seen as a mechanism for combating corruption, allowing a particular authority to circumvent a flawed judicial process to free someone who is seen as wrongly convicted. Pardons can also be a source of controversy. In extreme cases, some pardons may be seen as acts of corruption by officials in the form of granting effective immunity as political favors.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Pardoning

    of Pardon

  2. Pardoningadjective

    relating to pardon; having or exercising the right to pardon; willing to pardon; merciful; as, the pardoning power; a pardoning God

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pardoning in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pardoning in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of pardoning in a Sentence

  1. President Trump:

    I would get more thrill out of pardoning people nobody has heard of, like Alice Marie Johnson yesterday.

  2. Jeffrey Toobin:

    The President has shown through pardoning( Arizona sheriff) Joe Arpaio, through pardoning( conservative author and filmmaker) Dinesh D'Souza, that The President uses the pardon power to help out The President friends. So it is not surprising that they went out there trying to get a pardon. I don't think it was even inappropriate.

  3. Rudy Giuliani:

    He’s not, but he probably does, he has no intention of pardoning himself.

  4. Donald Trump:

    I am seriously thinking about -- not pardoning -- but I am seriously thinking of a curtailment of Blagojevich.

  5. Denis Pushilin:

    The exchange of the British men sentenced to death in the DPR is not under discussion, there are no grounds for pardoning them.

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