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
Since then, prisoners who do not get parole have been allowed out when they have six months left to serve.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
The maximum sentence for those charges is life in prison without parole.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Another Louisiana man, Johnny Lee Ball, was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after meeting with a public defender for just eleven minutes before trial.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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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
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
Like the board of pardons and paroles, Abbott was unmoved.
From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2024
Discretionary paroles are available only to offenders not sentenced to life in prison who committed a felony before Dec. 31, 1999.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
It was his duty to record the paroles and countersigns, the various orders for the next day, and to see that they were attended to.
From Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59 by M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan
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
Her attorneys noted that DHS determined she was not a flight risk when she was paroled into the country and that her detention was unjustified.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025
“Don’t be so dramatic,” said Vivian, who earlier had told Maya-Jade that she felt as if she’d been paroled from prison.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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South Koreans have been divided over whether Mr. Lee was worth paroling.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 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
Human-rights advocates say that paroling the perpetrators threatens the entire logic of international criminal law.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 9, 2018
But Johnson has said that the Michigan Parole Board has never expressed interest in paroling him.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2018
Finding nothing in his way, he entered the place, the rebels having retreated immediately after paroling the sick and wounded, which the Captain found in as good condition as circumstances would admit.
From History of the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry by R. C. Rankin
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