英语词汇“prerogative of mercy”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

prerogative of mercy

noun [mass noun]

The right and power of a sovereign, state president, or other supreme authority to commute a death sentence, to change the mode of execution, or to pardon an offender.The prerogative of mercy exists as a safety valve where the criminal trial and appeal system produces a result which the public interest cannot sustain....

This was particularly dangerous for Middleton because it challenged the royal prerogative of mercy.
Yet the people, like all sovereigns, had the prerogative of mercy, and on the eighteenth a reprieve was proposed.

单词	prerogative of mercy
释义	prerogative of mercy noun [mass noun] The right and power of a sovereign, state president, or other supreme authority to commute a death sentence, to change the mode of execution, or to pardon an offender.The prerogative of mercy exists as a safety valve where the criminal trial and appeal system produces a result which the public interest cannot sustain.... This was particularly dangerous for Middleton because it challenged the royal prerogative of mercy. Yet the people, like all sovereigns, had the prerogative of mercy, and on the eighteenth a reprieve was proposed.
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