Reprieve
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In criminal law. The withdrawing of a sentence of death for an interval of time, whereby the execution is suspended.
4 Bl. Comm. 394. And see Butler v. State, 07 Ind. 374; Sterling v. Drake, 29 Ohio St. 460, 23 Am. Rep. 762 ; In re Buchanan, 146 N. Y. 264, 40 N. E. 883.