reprieve
used in Change of Heart by Picoult

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Definition

delay or halt punishment; or a warrant granting such — especially a death sentence

or:

relieve temporarily

Those red phones are direct hookups to the governor's office and the attorney general—the commissioner will call to make sure there's been no stay of execution, no last minute reprieve.

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