perform meritorious service to atone for one's crimes so as to obtain clemency from the people.
In a plea for clemency, Zaidi added: "I remember in the summer of 2005, I interviewed your excellency and you told me, 'Come in, this is your house."'
The prisoners fell on their knees to beg for clemency.
She hath opened her mouth to wisdom, and the law of clemency is on her tongue.
He appealed to the judge for clemency.
Captain Bligh: If that's an attempt to earn clemency, I spit on it.
Compassionate treatment, especially of those under one's power; clemency.
The Roman Catholic Church has suggested it might push for clemency in the case of a woman in Iran who's been sentenced to death by stoning.
The head of Iraq's journalists' union has asked the government for clemency towards the journalist who is still in custody.
There is a storm of singin 'in "la la Land," but no rain; the clemency of the weather is a God-given joke, and, even at Christmas, when Mia walks home after dark, she is clad as if for June.
He was at fault, and he cast himself on her clemency.
They addressed to the governor a plea for clemency.
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