mercy plea
Begging for leniency
A mercy plea is an appeal for leniency, especially in legal contexts where a defendant or their advocate asks the court for a reduced sentence based on mitigating circumstances: His lawyer made an impassioned mercy plea, citing his client's age and poor health.
Outside courtrooms, any earnest request for compassion or forgiveness: She ignored his mercy plea and ended the relationship.
- clemencyMerciful treatment of offenders
- forgivenessReleasing resentment toward offenders
- pardonOfficial release from punishment
- leniencyMildness in punishment
- reduced sentenceLessened judicial punishment
compassion · sentencing · defendant · judge · courtroom · death row · life or death · begging · on bended knee · supplication · crying out · remorse · guilt · tears · knees · desperate · broken spirit · reprieve
- pleasplease, prayers, entreaty, petitions, appeals
- clemencypardon, amnesty, clemency, reprieve, commutation
- prayersOur Father, morning prayers, Lord's Prayer, daily prayers, evening prayers
mercy pleademand
Forceful request or requirement
ultimatum · threat · declaration · command · insistence
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