commutation
Penalty gets lessened
Commutation centers on the idea of exchange or substitution.
In law, it refers to reducing a criminal sentence to something less severe: The governor granted commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment.
In mathematics and logic, commutation describes operations where the order of elements can be switched without changing the result—addition commutes, but subtraction doesn't.
The word also applies to regular travel between home and work, though the noun commute is far more common for this sense.
Complete thought, grammatically
- clemencyMerciful treatment of offenders
- paroleConditional early release
- probationSupervised trial period
- pardonOfficial release from punishment
reprieve · mitigation · penalty · reduction · amnesty · mercy · leniency · remission
Exchange of one for another
- conversionAct of changing states
- interchangeReciprocal transfer between parties
- swapExchange one for another
- tradeExchange of commodities
replacement · equivalent · transformation · calculation · monetary · payment · lump sum · buyout
sentence
Complete thought, grammatically
- clemencyMerciful treatment of offenders
- paroleConditional early release
- probationSupervised trial period
pardon · reprieve · mitigation · penalty · reduction · amnesty · mercy · leniency · remission · rehabilitation
substitution
Exchange of one for another
- conversionAct of changing states
- interchangeReciprocal transfer between parties
- swapExchange one for another
trade · replacement · equivalent · transformation · calculation · monetary · payment · lump sum · buyout · annuity
daily
Per diem, repeated
bus · train · carpool · bicycle · traffic · transit · passenger · fare · ticket · route
switching
Changing from one to another
- circuitClosed electrical pathway
- currentDirected flow of charge
- voltageElectrical potential difference
rectifier · alternating · direct · converter · motor · brushes · armature · segments · DC · AC
- criminal justicearrest, jail, court, prison, crime
- government actionslaws, policies, presidential decree, resolution, mandates
- mercyclemency, compassion, forgiveness, leniency, lenience
- presidencyOval Office, president, Washington, executive branch, veto
- feudalismfief, vassal, fealty, homage, lord
- penologypenology, prisons, incarceration, parole board, prison
commutationmaximum sentence
Longest term a judge can impose
death sentence · life sentence · mandatory minimum · life without parole · incarceration
commutationconviction
Firmly held belief
full pardon · exoneration · guilty verdict · condemnation · acquittal
- commutative propertyOrder of terms irrelevant