Search Result for "executive clemency":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the power (usually of a president or governor) to pardon or commute the sentence of someone convicted in that jurisdiction; 



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

executive clemency
    n 1: the power (usually of a president or governor) to pardon or
         commute the sentence of someone convicted in that
         jurisdiction