Sentences with phrase «commutes death sentences»

Three years after his sentence was overturned, then - Texas Governor Mark White commuted his death sentence to a life sentence, despite the fact that the conviction had been overturned.

Bill Kurtis, CBS correspondent and anchor of Cold Case Files, launches The Death Penalty on Trial with the statistics that convinced former Illinois governor George Ryan to declare a moratorium on executions in his state in 2000 and, three years later, to commute all death sentences.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai has commuted the death sentences passed on 66 soldiers who were tried by several Military Court Martials for mutiny and other offences in the fight against Boko Haram terrorists»...

«It was on the basis of the review and recommendations that the Chief of Army Staff commuted the death sentences of the 66 soldiers to 10 years jail term.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai has commuted the death sentences passed on 66 soldiers who were tried by several Military Court Martials for mutiny and other offences in the fight against Boko Haram terrorists» in the North East to terms of 10 years imprisonment.

The federal government could have commuted the death sentence, but the decision to let the law take its course was purely political.

Unlike former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, who just before leaving office in 2003 commuted the death sentences of all of Illinois» condemned inmates, Brown would need the support of the state Supreme Court to spare inmates with multiple felonies on their records.

In September 2005, Human Rights Watch urged the Saudi government to commute the death sentence of 14 - year - old Ahmad D., sentenced to death in July 2005 for killing another child when he was 13.

Not exact matches

But there was no indication that Sibat's death sentence would be commuted or that he would be released, she said.

Marshall Petain was sentenced to death by firing squad, but de Gaulle commuted that to life imprisonment.

Abimbola in the statement said that 13 convicts had their life sentences reduced to a term of years, having spent considerable terms in prison, while one person had his death sentence commuted to a life sentence.

This was used and cited the most often in cases of inmates who had been given the death penalty: from 1965 to 1993 (when the death penalty was formally abolished) death sentences were automatically commuted to life imprisonment under the Royal Prerogative.

A Statement detailing the action of General Buratai, signed by the Acting Director, Army Public Relations, said, «The death sentences by firing squad passed on 66 soldiers in January and March 2015 by separate General Court Martials have been commuted to 10 years imprisonment each.

His worst - case scenario was that the death sentences would be commuted in exchange for blood money and the medics would spend the rest of their lives in a Libyan jail.

We get our first good look at Michael Fassbender as Callum Lynch, whose death sentence is «commuted» by Abstergo Industries, who find him more useful alive.

A woman fit for hanging... condemned to death on April 30, 1823, but whose sentence the English, having recently wrested authority from the Dutch settlers, saw fit to commute to a lengthy term on the notorious Robben Island.

Finally, the sentence of death that had hung over him was commuted.

Of course, they could abolish the federal death penalty with an ordinary act of legislation, and the President could pardon or commute the sentences of all federal prisoners on death row.

I was glad to see the state where I practice, New Mexico, abolish the death penalty just as I was happy to assist Governor Toney Anaya commute the sentences to life in prison of the five defendants who were then on death row in our state.

Truscott was initially sentenced to death, but this was commuted to life imprisonment.

These regulations directed, among other things, that review of the sentence imposed by the commission should be by the officer convening it, with «authority to approve, mitigate, remit, commute, suspend, reduce, or otherwise alter the sentence imposed,» and directed that no sentence of death should be carried into effect until confirmed by the Commander in Chief, United States Army Forces, Pacific.