1. Most of those who received clemency Monday were convicted of selling crack cocaine.

2. Now, whether amnesty or clemency ever becomes a possibility is not for me to say.

3. Amnesty International also called on him to offer clemency to the prisoners.

4. Now it is up to him, whether he will seek clemency from the president, or not.

5. Unless he seeks clemency from the president he could be hanged in days.

6. He said some sort of clemency should be exercised.

7. The Texas clemency process is the weakest in the nation, in the state that executes the most.

8. The Justice Department issued new clemency criteria last year designed to encourage thousands of additional inmates to seek an early release.

9. Earlier, a Jakarta court threw out an appeal by two Australians against their presidential clemency rejections.

10. In response to our appeal, the Syrian authorities have found it possible to show clemency and release the American on humanitarian grounds.

11. The Australians are among nine foreign drug criminals who are to be executed soon despite clemency appeals from several of their governments.

12. We are not here to judge whether Edward Snowden deserves life in prison, or clemency, Williams told the NBC audience.