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1. “Corporal Lamb we have appealed to the C in C to either have the conviction quashed or the death sentence commuted on account of your age
2. [39] Standardised stipend payments have now all been commuted and are no longer payable
3. John Harvey Adamson spent time on Arizona’s death row facing the gas chamber, which later was replaced by lethal injection, until his sentence was commuted to life without parole
4. By then, my younger brother, John, had completed junior college in Vallejo and he and Edana had moved into San Francisco, from which he commuted three days per week to Cal State—Sonoma in Santa Rosa to finish his BS
5. I responded to an ad in the west coast edition of the WSJ for a job in Navy OGC at General Dynamics’ Pomona cruise missile plant which would have been great because I could have rented a small apartment locally and commuted home to Orinda using the dirt cheap air fares on Air Cal and PSA, allowing Dixie and Will to keep the Orinda house
6. Again, I was highly interested because I could have commuted each week from Oakland leaving Dixie and Will in the house we could not sell
7. Becoming friendly with Joseph Stalin, Roosevelt commuted
8. I had commuted to Albuquerque one weekend per month to visit her
9. Our operations foreman, Willard Piatt, commuted faithfully from Scranton into our central New York territory for years
10. " But the sentence was commuted after only one year and he was allowed to return to school with a record that’d been wiped clean
11. "Now we're onto something," Calvin started a new search, hoping to find out why a former convicted terrorist had been allowed aboard a major military vessel like the Harbinger, and why Gates' sentence had been commuted
12. I knew Springsteen who was on death row but he had his sentence commuted when the Supreme Court decided it is unconstitutional to execute juvenile offenders
13. One of them, Rob Springsteen, was on death row before being commuted to life because he was a juvenile
14. for God has commuted your sin against Him
15. Bob maintained contact with the Party and commuted by train to New York from Woodstock to manage the state party organization and Patsy stayed at home on the farm, raising three children
16. Our inspector on second shift, who we called "Ned the Fed", was a goof who lived three states away and commuted home every weekend
17. If not, when my punishments evolved into restrictions on my movements, I quickly discovered that I could drive my mother nuts by saying “There’s nothing to do?” This made the punishment more hers than mine, and she soon commuted my sentence because she did not want me in the house
18. I worked at one company where people commuted from different areas of the state
19. The last five years before I retired, I commuted to Rochester from Buffalo for my software contracts, driving alone, so I put on a few miles
20. On 3 July, two days after Francis's death sentence was commuted to transportation for life, John William Bean also tried to fire a pistol at the Queen, but it was loaded only with paper and tobacco and had too little charge
21. His Majesty commuted that
22. Did Christ die only in the sense in which other men die? Was His death the curse of the Law? Or was it some modification of that curse? Did Christ suffer a pain and misery of the same sort and of equal weight, with that threatened to Adam in the day of his creation, or did He bear some commuted penalty, which, in consideration of His Divine Nature, was accounted a sufficient expiation?
23. And there was the Quack, who was petitioning to have his death penalty commuted
24. In his more romantic moments, my father would claim kinship with Terence MacManus, one of the Young Irelander rebels of 1848, who had been convicted of treason only to have his sentence commuted to transportation to Van Diemen’s Land
25. I confronted Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona about her refusal to set free an elderly convicted killer even after her own clemency board unanimously recommended his sentence be commuted
26. In January 1935 the lease was commuted by a lump-sum payment resulting in the redemption of the Tobacco Products 6½s at par
27. On other estates the serfs’ compulsory labor was commuted for a quitrent
28. After the usual compliments, he told my father that the suspicions of my complicity in the rebel plots were only too well founded, as had been proved,—that an exemplary execution might have been my fate, were it not that the Empress, out of consideration for the father’s white hair and loyal services, had commuted the sentence of the criminal son
29. The meschanka Katerina Maslova is hereby informed that his Imperial Majesty, with reference to her most loyal petition, condescending to her request, deigns to order that her sentence to hard labour should be commuted to one of exile to the less distant districts of Siberia
30. “Could not the death sentence be commuted now?”
31. He was arrested, tried, kept in prison two years and finally death sentence was imposed on him, but was afterward commuted to hard labor for life
32. Although the sentence was commuted to hard labor in Siberia, and although six years later he was freed and again took up his writing, his mind never rose from beneath the weight of horror and hopelessness that hangs over offenders against the Great White Czar