royal pardon
Crown grants forgiveness
A royal pardon is an official act by a monarch forgiving a person's crime and canceling the punishment.
Unlike a court acquittal, it doesn't declare innocence—it simply releases someone from legal consequences.
Historically used to correct injustices or show mercy, royal pardons today are typically granted on advice of government ministers: He received a royal pardon decades after his wrongful conviction.
- amnestyGroup pardon from authorities
- clemencyMerciful treatment of offenders
- act of graceUndeserved kindness shown freely
- reprievePostponement of punishment
- commutationSubstitution of penalties
last minute reprieve · mercy · prerogative · divine right · sovereign · crown · exoneration · condemned · justice · scaffold · gallows · proclamation · immunity · forgiveness · decree · parole · leniency · jurisdiction
- clemencyamnesty, clemency, reprieve, commutation, amnesty law
- royal actionscoronation, decree, abdication, reign, knighting
- royal decreesdecree, decrees, edict, edicts, command
- royal powersruling, sovereign rights, divine right, decrees, edicts
- monarchyking, queen, prince, princess, crown
- reconciliationreconciliation, reconcile, reconciled, reconciling, making up
royal pardonconviction
Firmly held belief
death sentence · execution · imprisonment · condemnation · life sentence
royal pardonexile
Banishment from homeland
banishment · imprisonment · deportation · disenfranchisement · civil death