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The International Justice Project has created a sample
clemency letter for interested users. Please visit a case profile to learn more about an offender before writing a clemency letter. If sending a clemency letter, please feel free to use our sample letter as a template. Ensure that all blank sections are completed and please delete any text in italics.
It is important to remember the following when writing a clemency letter:
- Always reference that neither your letter, nor clemency excuses the crime, nor does it minimize the pain or suffering of the victim's family and friends.
- Always write in a respectful, non-belligerent tone.
Other relevant information which should be included in any clemency letter is the following:
- Whether you are a citizen of the state where the execution is to take place.
- Any trial or appellate irregularities that you think are important.
- Specific instances of abuse, or other mitigating factors, that were brought to your attention by this site.
- Note whether this execution would be the state's first such execution
since reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976. Click here
to see a list of state's that have executed juvenile offenders.
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