Example sentences for: commuted

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

  • "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."

  • Under Missouri law, a death sentence may be commuted if someone really famous speaks up for the condemned.

  • Carnahan commuted Mease's sentence to life in prison but said he still supports the death penalty and made an exception for Mease only because of "the coincidence of the pope being there" and "making a personal request that I chose to respond to."

  • , 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.

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


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