parole
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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
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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
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
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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
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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