Clemency power enables pardon, reprieve, remission or commutation including death sentences, subject to specified statutory exceptions. The Constitution vests in the President the power to grant pardons, reprieves, respites and remissions and to suspend, remit or commute sentences, covering convictions by courts martial, offences under laws within the Union executive domain, and sentences of death; this power does not affect statutory powers of Armed Forces officers regarding court martial sentences nor affect a State Governor's power to suspend, remit or commute death sentences under existing law.
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Clemency power enables pardon, reprieve, remission or commutation including death sentences, subject to specified statutory exceptions.
The Constitution vests in the President the power to grant pardons, reprieves, respites and remissions and to suspend, remit or commute sentences, covering convictions by courts martial, offences under laws within the Union executive domain, and sentences of death; this power does not affect statutory powers of Armed Forces officers regarding court martial sentences nor affect a State Governor's power to suspend, remit or commute death sentences under existing law.
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