Reprieve

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Reprieve can refer to:

• In criminal proceedings, the act of postponing the enforcement of a sentence, particularly a death sentence, to allow an appeal
• Reprieve (death sentence), a criminal punishment pronounced in place of the death penalty in China's law.
• Reprieve (organisation), a group of organisations working against the death penalty
• Reprieve (album), a 2006 album by Ani DiFranco
• The Reprieve, a 1947 novel by Jean-Paul Sartre