11.   Their plea should be heard by a court independent of executive branch pressure.

12.   U.S. senators hear pleas for help from nurses, hospital executives and health care officials.

13.   Virtually every member of Congress has heard pleas from constituents unable to afford medicines they need.

14.   Victor Rodriguez of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles said he has heard such pleas often.

15.   Willie Anderson, who has never played savior for any franchise before, hears the pleas for help.

16.   Paez has heard guilty pleas from four McNall associates in the case and is expected to preside over all matters stemming from the grand jury investigation.

17.   A man inside the house, Ghulamnabi, heard the pleas for help and rushed outside and saw Spogmay fallen in the snow.

18.   Assistant Attorney General J. Jayson Phillips told Goger that Georgia law does not require all five board members to hear clemency pleas.

19.   CBS heard this plea of two years ago and, indeed, the series was back on the air the following winter.

20.   Gov. Mike Easley commuted the death sentence of an inmate who had argued that Easley should not hear clemency pleas because he once advocated capital punishment as a prosecutor.