The debtors plead for mercy, but the creditors think they must suffer for their sins.

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Beasley, who did not take the stand to plead for mercy, hung his head, local media reported.

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Her own family can only assert her innocence and plead for mercy.

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And when two Jesuit priests were kidnapped, he said he convinced a Junta leader's priest to call in sick so he might celebrate Mass at the general's home and plead for mercy.

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