| 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.
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