Has the power to grand pardons, commutations,reprieves, amnesty for all offenses except impeachment cases and remit fines and forfeitures after the recipient has been convicted?

Is the agency in charge with the release of sentenced prisoners based on modes specified by law

A special form of pardon execised by the president of the republic

A general pardon extended to a certain class of people who are usually political offenders

Refers to the exemption of an individual within certain limits or conditions; from the punishment that the law inflicts for the offence he has committed resulting in the partial extinction of criminal liability

has the power to release an inmate who has been reformed but not eligible to be release on parole

Prerogative exercised by the president of the philippines

Is the temporary stay of the execution of the sentence

Is extended to death penalty prisoners. The date of execution of sentence is temorarily posponed indefinitely to enable the chief executive to throughly stufy the petition of the conmned man for communtatiin of sentence or pardon

Granted by the president to an imprisoned president the incumbent has deposed

This pardon is granted in order to restore full political and civil rights to convicted person who have already served their sentence and have reached the prescribed period

Total extinction of the criminal liability of the individual to whom it is granted without any condition whatsoever

Restores to the individual his civil rights and remits the penalty imposed for the particular offense of which he was convicted

Two kinds of pardon

Is a form of executive clemency granted by the president as a privilege extended to a convict as a discretionary act of grace

Purpose of absolute pardon

Refer to the reduction of the duration of a prison sentence

It is an act of clemency by which a heavier or longer sentence is refuce to a lighter or shorter term

Endorse a petition for a grant of either absolute or conditional pardon to the board if the crime commited by the petitioner is against national security such as rebellion, subversion or sedition; or by the commission on elections, in case of violations of election laws, rules and regulations.

refer to Absolute Pardon, Conditional Pardon with or without parole conditions and Commutation of Sentence as may be granted by the President of the Philippines upon the recommendation of the Board of Pardons and Parole.

Method of correcting sentenced offenders without having to go to prison

Granted only after final sentence

also benefits inmates sentenced to a fixed or determinate sentence, which renders him or her ineligible for parole

Changes the original fixed sentence to lesser intermediate sentence, which eill then enable the beneficiary to be released on parole

Formal petition for executive clemency shall states the:

Petition for absolute pardon requirements:

For commutation of sentence, the petitioner must served at least ____ of the minimum of his indeterminate sentence, or the ff portions of his prison sentence consist of reclusion perpetua (life imprisonment)

For commutation of sentence, the petitioner must served At least ___ if convicted of robbery with homicide, robbery with rape or kidnapping with murder

For commutation of sentence, the petitioner must served at least ____ if convicted of simple murder,parricide,rape or violation of anti-drug laws

For commutation of sentence, the petitioner must served at least __ if given 2 or more sentences for reclution perpetua

In acting on petitions for executive clemency, the BPP shall consider, among others the:

For commutation of sentence, the petitioner must served at least __ in case of 2 sentences for reclution perpetua; provided that at least __ of the sentences had been automatically commuted from a death sentence

For conditional pardon, the petitioner must have served at leadt ___ of the minimun if his inferterminate sentence

For conditional pardon, the petitioner must have served at least ___ if convicted if murder or parricide but not sentenced to reclusion perpetua

For conditional pardon, the petitioner must have served at least ___ year of the minimum sentence if convicted of homicide;

For conditional pardon, the petitioner must have served at least ___ if convicted of frustrated homicide;

For conditional pardon, the petitioner must have served at least ___ if convicted of attempted homicide

For absolute pardon, ___ must have elapsed from the date of release of the petitioner from confinement or ___ from the date of expiration of his maximum sentence, whichever is more beneficial to him.

For commutation of sentence, the petitioner must served at least ___ in case of ___ which was automatically commuted to reclution perpetua and:

Carpeta shall consist of the following: