11.   Once, according to court papers and the clemency petition, Garcia used a broken bottle to cut a two-inch wound in her genitalia.

12.   Rodriguez, however, noted that nothing precludes death row prisoners from filing clemency petitions in advance of getting an execution date.

13.   The clemency petition was flatly opposed by the FBI, the Bureau of Prisons and U.S. attorneys in Illinois and Connecticut, the officials said.

14.   The governor can act upon this belief in reviewing the clemency petitions of both boys.

15.   The prospect of executing someone whose lawyer had failed to properly file a clemency petition had already attracted the attention of death penalty opponents.

16.   To begin with, there are no guidelines for filing a clemency petition in a federal capital case.

17.   Wilson and his legal staff have devoted an enormous amount of time to reviewing clemency petitions, Walsh says, some of them coming from death row inmates.

18.   Attorney Rob Nigh Jr. had drafted a clemency petition in case McVeigh wanted to submit it.

19.   Attorney Rob Nigh Jr. said Thursday that he had drafted a clemency petition in case McVeigh wanted to submit it.

20.   Chan now has one week to file his clemency petition.