Sentence examples for parole option from inspiring English sources

Cole believes that the rising number of DNA-based exonerations has made jurors more cautious and sceptical, that the introduction of a life without parole option for capital cases in 2005 has had a major effect, and prosecutors are seeking death less often.

1 Parole Option Dwindles Inmates in New York have a much smaller chance of being released on parole now than they did a decade ago, state figures show, and for the most violent inmates, the chance of early parole has almost been eliminated.

From new state laws revising parole options for people convicted as juveniles to President Obama's second term prioritising reform, and more recently Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton making criminal justice reform a centrepiece of her campaign, undoing the mistakes of the past are on the agenda.

Opponents of capital punishment had argued that life-without-parole option would offer juries assurance that a murderer would not be released.

In Governor Perry's first year, 33 were issued; last year, only 7. That appears partly due to the new life without parole sentencing option.

"Texas has no life without parole sentencing option," Mr. Perry said in explaining why he was denying clemency to Mr. Patterson, whom he called "a very violent individual".

States passed laws making life without parole an option for certain aggravated murders, meaning there was a sufficiently harsh alternative to the death penalty.

Three of the jurors that sentenced Gardner to death signed an affidavit that they would have recommended life without parole, an option that was not available in Utah until 1992.