His was a compassionate release having nothing to do with politics.

On December 25, 1998, authorities yielded to international pressure, granting him a compassionate release and allowing him treatment in Houston.

If a prisoner qualifies, a state may allow compassionate early release to avoid high costs associated with organ transplants.

The New Zealand legal system allows compassionate release for terminal illness or pregnancy, but there are only a small number of applications each year.

Scotland The Scottish legal system permits compassionate release for terminal illness.

Scots Law, thank God, permits compassionate release.

The Libyans have not yet made a formal application for compassionate release .

Atkins was given less than six months to live and subsequently requested a "compassionate release" from prison.

This was one animal and the other was the compassionate release.

That includes the Justice Minister to whom it fell to make the decisions on prisoner transfer and compassionate release on a quasi-judicial basis.