Section 89: Prerogative of Mercy.

(1) The President may, acting in accordance with the advice of a Committee appointed by the Cabinet over which the First Vice-President shall preside— a) grant to any person concerned in or convicted of any offence against the laws of Sierra Leone a pardon, either free or subject to lawful conditions; b) grant to any person a respite, either indefinite or for a specified period of the execution of any punishment imposed on that person for such an offence; c) substitute a less severe form of punishment for any punishment imposed on any person for such an offence; d) remit the whole or any part of any punishment imposed upon any person for such an offence or any penalty or forfeiture otherwise due to the Government on account of such an offence: Provided that, in cases which the First Vice-President considers urgent, the President may exercise the powers specified in paragraph (a) on the advice of the First Vice-President alone but the First Vice-President shall inform the Committee of any such advice as soon as practicable after giving the same. (2) Where any person has been sentenced to death by any Court (other than a court martial) for any offence, the Committee appointed under subsection (1) shall cause a written report of the case from the trial judge together with such other information, including a medical report on the prisoner, derived from the record of the case or elsewhere, as the Committee may require, to be submitted to it as soon as possible.