parole
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A year later she was sentenced to death, while Shipp - who was 17 at the time - was given a life sentence with the possibility of parole.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Bechi would have been eligible for parole around March 2027, or would have been released at the end of his sentence in 2029.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
He exhausted his direct appeals, and the state’s pardon and parole board denied his request for a commutation in December.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
The maximum sentence Nick Reiner will face is life in prison without possibility of parole.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
We ended up taking on almost one hundred new cases following the court's ban on life imprisonment without parole for kids convicted of non-homicide offenses.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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Initially, both sides assumed that the familiar practice of cartels and paroles would be maintained.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
“These paroles have since been terminated with immediate effect,” the agency announced on X. Again, it was unclear specifically who this applied to and if these individuals were notified.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2025
The revocation, she ruled, would have to be on a case-by-case basis, just as their paroles had been granted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025
The paroles board on Tuesday voted 7-0 against commuting Speer’s death sentence to a lesser penalty.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2023
He paroles him, dating the parole at the city of Richmond.
From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin
One of them was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole, and the other was paroled after cooperating with investigators.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the U.S. government was bound by a Biden-era court settlement to expedite asylum claims of Afghans paroled into the U.S. under Operation Allies Welcome.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
"This is an ongoing sentence from which I can never be paroled."
From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025
She was reported to fill her time with needlepoint and bookkeeping duties, and was paroled in 2007 at the age of 77 from a low-security federal facility for women in Dublin, east of San Francisco.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2025
That stupid guy had been paroled briefly to serve as director at Camp Half-Blood.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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South Koreans have been divided over whether Mr. Lee was worth paroling.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2021
“By ICE’s own policy, these are people that shouldn’t be in detention any longer,” Altman said, citing ICE’s process for paroling asylum-seekers until a judge decides their case.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2021
Advocates and community members have long agreed that D.C. needs a new paroling authority.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2021
The HSI agent also wrote out a formal order paroling one of Mr. Sargsyan’s Armenian relatives into the U.S., and got his supervisor to sign off, Mr. Sargsyan says.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 29, 2020
After paroling his prisoners, Jackson hurried to rejoin Lee, who was being hotly pressed by McClellan at Antietam.
From From Bull Run to Appomattox by Luther W. Hopkins
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