21.   Disease and overcrowding periodically forces the government to grant amnesty to suspected criminals.

22.   For that reason alone, the commission said, it could not grant amnesty.

23.   Former East German athletes were granted amnesty, however, and were not suspended after the system of doping was uncovered in documents and court cases.

24.   Fox floated the idea of granting amnesty to Mexicans who entered the United States illegally and have take up residence here.

25.   He also granted amnesty to Vietnam draft resisters and commuted the sentence of Patricia Hearst.

26.   He did not believe in granting amnesty to such criminals, he said, but he would do it if it was for the good of the country.

27.   If the commission believes it is being told the truth, it can grant amnesty to those who come forward.

28.   If amnesty was not granted by the commission, Coetzee would have already confessed.

29.   In addition, the commission veered from its usual format by failing to explain the thinking behind its decision to grant the amnesties.

30.   In granting the amnesty, the commission also veered from its usual format by failing to publicly explain its decision.