词汇 | Commutation, Commute |
释义 | `1`Commutation, Commute `2` "Legal Lexicon": COMMUTATION, COMMUTE - The change of a punishment to which a person has been condemned into a less severe one. This can be granted only by the executive authority in which the pardoning power resides. COMMUTE - To substitute one punishment in the place of another. For example, if a man be sentenced to be hung, the executive may, in some states, commute his punishment to that of imprisonment. --b-- |
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