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parole

[puh-rohl] / pəˈroʊl /
VERB
discharge
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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"Indeed, our submission is that for this offending the respondent should be sentenced to life without parole," he said.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

A judge sentenced her to life imprisonment, eligible for parole after 33 years.

From Barron's Aug. 17, 2026

He applied for parole three times before his request was approved by the Parole Board in April.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

The maximum sentence for those charges is life in prison without parole.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

Pennsylvania sentencing law was inflexible: For those convicted of second-degree murder, mandatory life imprisonment without the possibility of parole was the only sentence.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Initially, both sides assumed that the familiar practice of cartels and paroles would be maintained.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 20, 2026

Like the board of pardons and paroles, Abbott was unmoved.

From Slate Oct. 18, 2024

The paroles board on Tuesday voted 7-0 against commuting Speer’s death sentence to a lesser penalty.

From Seattle Times Oct. 25, 2023

Huynh said the recidivism rates for the people who go through Defy Ventures’ Entrepreneurs in Training program is far lower than the average, but some do reoffend or violate their paroles.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 2, 2023

Under the immediate eye of Cornwallis," says Mr. Bancroft, "the prisoners who had capitulated in Charleston were the subjects of perpetual persecution, unless they would exchange their paroles for oaths of allegiance.

From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

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

Fromme was paroled in 2009 and moved to upstate New York, largely disappearing.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 25, 2025

If they are paroled, the brothers will be released likely within five months, according to the California Department of Corrections.

From BBC May 17, 2025

That stupid guy had been paroled briefly to serve as director at Camp Half-Blood.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

The Baltimore Sun on the involvement of the governor of Maryland in paroling three juveniles who were given life sentences:

From Washington Times Nov. 27, 2019

Human-rights advocates say that paroling the perpetrators threatens the entire logic of international criminal law.

From The New Yorker Jul. 9, 2018

Lawrence spent two days in the valley of the La Belle, paroling his prisoners, and loading up their wagons with provisions and forage enough to last to Rolla.

From The Courier of the Ozarks by Byron A. (Byron Archibald) Dunn




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