"Reprieve" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
In criminal law. The with* drawing of a sentence of death for an in-terval of time, whereby the execution is sus-pended. 4 Bl. Comm. 394. And see Butler v. State, 97 Ind. 374; Sterling v. Drake, 29 Ohio SL 460, 23 Am. Rep. 762; In re Buch-anan, 146 N. Y. 264, 40 N. E. 883
To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution
of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a
criminal for thirty days.
To relieve for a time, or temporarily.
Interval of ease or relief; respite.
A temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence,
especially of a sentence of death.
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