| | Records Relating to Criminal Trials, Appeals, and Pardons, Information Leaflet #9 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02) |
 | | The governor's power to grant commutations of sentence was added by the Constitution of 1846. |
| | The number of grants of clemency declined after indeterminate (variable-length) sentences were introduced for juveniles (1877) and for all first-time felony offenders (1901). |
| | These books contain record copies of respites (reprieves for persons sentenced to death and respites of sentences for persons convicted of non-capital crimes); and of commutations of sentence (commutation of death sentences or reduction in the length of other criminal sentences). |
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