11.   Aryeh Shumer, an aide to Weizman, said the president had previously commuted the sentences of five Israeli Arabs convicted of killing suspected informers or planting bombs.

12.   As in each year of his tenure, Cuomo closed the year by commuting the sentences of several inmates.

13.   At a press conference Thursday, Violet Amirault said that while this appeal is pending, she will not ask Gov. Wiliam Weld to commute her sentence.

14.   Booker spent six years in prison in Massachusetts for killing her abusive husband before having her sentence commuted this summer.

15.   Both had their sentences commuted.

16.   Bush agreed with the recommendation of the Board of Pardons and Paroles and commuted the sentence to life in prison.

17.   But its members later unanimously recommended against clemency, which would commute the sentence to life in prison without parole, and Saturday Davis said he agreed with them.

18.   But that sentence was commuted to a life term on Friday by Gov. George W. Bush.

19.   But the sentence was commuted to a life term by Gov. George W. Bush.

20.   But when Truman commuted the mail fraud sentence of former Boston Mayor Michael Curley, he was condemned widely for playing favorites with a fellow Democratic politician.