pardon board
Forgiveness granting panel
A pardon board is a government body that reviews requests for clemency—pardons, sentence reductions, or commutations—typically for convicted criminals.
The board evaluates cases and makes recommendations to a governor or other executive authority who holds final pardoning power.
His attorney filed an appeal with the state pardon board.
- clemencyMerciful treatment of offenders
- governorState's chief executive
- executive powerGovernment's enforcement capacity
- inmateConfined facility resident
- death rowHousing for condemned prisoners
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- pardonsclemency, amnesty, commutation, reprieve
pardon boardcorrections department
Agency managing incarceration facilities
prison system · prosecutor's office · district attorney · executioner · prison warden
pardon boardtrial court
First-level judicial forum
grand jury · criminal court · trial jury · petit jury · prosecuting attorney
pardon boardprosecutor
Government's trial lawyer
district attorney · grand jury · criminal court · probation officer · corrections department
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