81.   Under current law, inmates on death row longer than five years can have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment.

82.   Under Israeli law, the president can commute life sentences and pardon convicts.

83.   Under state law, governors can commute death sentences only if the board recommends it.

84.   Vignali, a drug dealer, had his sentence commuted, and Braswell, a baldness-cure huckster, gained a pardon.

85.   When he walked out four years ago after Gov. William Weld commuted his sentence, his hair was white, his gait slowed.

86.   When his death sentence was commuted he spent his time considering what he had done, examining the crime that he had committed.

87.   With the influence of Eleanor Roosevelt and other prominent figures opposed to the execution of minors, the sentence was commuted to life in prison.

88.   Yet Pataki, who has criticized the laws, can do more than merely commute a few sentences each holiday season.

89.   You have been given your last meal, crack open a lobster and are just dipping it in the butter ... Then the governor calls and commutes the sentence.

90.   Only the president can commute the sentence.