Example sentences for: commuted

How can you use “commuted” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • , Intellectual Dishonesty) Hall of Fame for its persistent refusal to make note in its coverage of Juanita Broaddrick's rape allegations that a key corroborating witness has a serious potential grudge against Bill Clinton: Her father's murderer had his sentence commuted by one Gov.

  • "The Pope Stops the Hangman" was the main headline in at least two papers; and front-page cartoons included one in Milan's Corriere della Sera showing the pope sticking his crook into the back of a black-hooded executioner with his hands up, and another in Rome's La Repubblica with him unplugging an electric chair while telling the still strapped-in murderer, "I have commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment, so you will have all the time you need to repent."

  • Although many Justice Department officials are opposed to a pardon, Carter says Hearst--now Patricia Hearst Shaw--has been a model citizen and mother since he commuted her sentence in 1979.

  • One of these witnesses was Norma Kelsey, the woman whose father's murderer had his sentence commuted by Gov.

  • Carnahan commuted Mease's sentence to life imprisonment.


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