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parole

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


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In the past few months, it has given the green light to commutations of sentences of life without parole so that they “can be eligible for a parole suitability hearing.”

From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2026

"I will therefore issue the same commutation to every condemned person -- life without the possibility of parole," he added.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that he plans to commute death sentences for 548 people facing execution by the state, allowing them to serve life in prison without the possibility of parole.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Life without the possibility of parole is the most severe punishment he can lawfully impose and that the state can ethically enforce, he said.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

This prediction proved correct, for not long afterward Wells collected both the reward and a parole.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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

CBP officials said they considered the paroles completed before the order, even though the releases were not.

From Washington Times ● May 17, 2023

At Hicks' Ford, a captain and thirty militia-men were taken by a ruse de guerre, and compelled to give their paroles.

From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell

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

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

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

Before I got to fire camp, my earliest possible release date was November 2013, yet I ended up paroling in February 2012.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2021

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

In a few minutes, the Mercedita sent a boat alongside the Chicora, with her first lieutenant, who, by authority of his captain, surrendered the ship, and assented to the paroling of the officers and crew.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes


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