Within hours, a hastily convened Commission on the Prerogative of Mercy met, chaired by the attorney-general, and advised the president to commute the sentence to life imprisonment, which he did.
Last week, parliament passed a law allowing Abdou Diouf, president since 1981, to become president-for-life.
Before the tale's flabbergasting end, Holloway has to cope with a trio of rogue federal agents, the escaped psychopathic killer who tried to take the President's life that fateful day and friends who turn out to be anything but.
If there is sufficient evident to warrant a criminal prosecution, this president, when he returns to private life, can be indicted, prosecuted, tried, and if convicted, punished like any other citizen.
But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision as President, all a President has to guide them are their life experiences.
As we prosecute three tough wars in the Middle East and humanitarian relief in Japan, as we rely on weapon systems long past their prime, as we learn about new threats to our way of life daily, President Obama has announced plans to shrink our military that can only be described as historic.
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Taha Yassin Ramadan, the former vice-president of Iraq was sentenced to life in prison.
The President is trying to breathe new life into financial reform.
If you are willing, as past generations were willing, to contribute part of your life to the life of this country, then I, like President Kennedy, believe we can.
But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as President, all you have to guide you are your life experiences.
Britons, in particular, are looking forward to the life after President George Bush.
As far as we know, only one American vice president ever made a contribution to public life worth remembering.
Around this time, budding curiosity about the President's private life started to converge with a more serious threat to his image.
"The commander-president remains clinging to Christ and to life, conscious of the difficulties that he is facing, and complying strictly with the programme designed by his medical team, " Mr Villegas said.
And I said to the President I have an experience of political life based on such grassroots activities, and I will also continue to pursue such a style of politics with my allies.
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That is why appointing a sympathetic judge to the Supreme Court for life has long been the surest way for a president to leave a lasting imprint on America.
They have spent their final days in office congratulating themselves: the legislature voted to make the de facto president, Roberto Micheletti, a congressman for life, and granted permanent security details to some 50 top officials at taxpayers' expense.
Or, the President can go high maintenance-high risk by replacing Vice-President Biden with Hillary Clinton to breathe new life into an old message.
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But at the end of the day, what I've learned is that when it comes time to make that decision, as President, all you have to guide you in the end are your life experiences.
And no matter how wrong or improper that disclosure of the President's private life was, it does not justify the lies the President told to the American people, his family and his staff.
And just as Lieutenant Kerry did not hesitate to risk his life to protect the men who served with him in Vietnam, President Kerry will not hesitate one moment to use our military might to keep America safe and secure.
Now the second-term President Bush has taken his charmed political life to the world stage.
Yes, it is illegal to threaten the life of the President of the United States.
"The president continues to hold fast to Christ and to life, aware of the difficulties he's facing, " Villegas said.
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He has declared that one of his priorities as president will be to secure the release from a life-sentence in U.S. federal prison of Omar Abdul Rahman.
Opposition parties support reforms in principle, but have little incentive to make life easy for a president whose party opposed those self-same reforms when they were in power.
Allowing people to threaten the life of a president, particularly during time of war, is not protecting free speech as much as it is dangerously close to treason as it is defined in Article III of the Constitution.
Now, the key to this is the President wants to ensure that these reforms will actually strengthen the programs and extend the life of these programs over the long term.
The president has said he is confident he will adjust to life after Washington.
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