1.   Alternatively, Toledo, who is to assume the presidency next month, could exercise his clemency power to attain justice.

2.   And the lawyer, Jack Quinn, orchestrated an end run around safeguards that usually prevent abuses of the clemency power.

3.   George W. Bush should take the truly compassionate step of using his clemency powers to ensure that no more mentally retarded convicts are executed in Texas.

4.   Government officials say they believe that felons read the FALN decision as another signal that the president was unsheathing his clemency power.

5.   In other cases, governors are using their clemency powers to correct legal injustices against abused women.

6.   Only when the public begins to punish politicians for not exercising their clemency power will the pattern change, Kobil said.