Sentences with phrase «from life imprisonment»

From life imprisonment for human traffickers to forcing pimps to pay compensation to their victims, Britain now has some of the world's toughest sanctions against modern slavery.

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Founded by Becca Stevens, and Episcopal priest and abuse survivor from Nashville, Thistle Farms is a social enterprise that trains and employs women recovering from abuse, prostitution, addiction, sex trafficking, imprisonment, and life on the streets.

Rev Kuwa Shamal Abazmam Kurri who faced the death penalty or life imprisonment was acquitted of all charges in January, while Christian aid worker Jasek from the Czech Republic received a presidential pardon and left Sudan in February.

They have only to live into that context for their identities to be redeemed from imprisonment to the horrendous events they have undergone.

A court in Pakistan has sentenced a Christian man to life imprisonment under the country's blasphemy law for allegedly sending «blasphemous» text messages about Prophet Muhammad from his mobile phone.

At some stage in a ghastly imprisonment in Herod's dungeon, beset by all the agonizing questions and doubts that come in solitary confinement, wrestling with a faith that has undergirded and energized his life for most of his adult years, John manages to smuggle out a message to Jesus that comes from the depths of his being.

Tell me when you, yourself have suffered some «real» injury, significant loss of freedom or danger to your life, imprisonment, death... from a Christian.

«The woman who tries to prevent her husband from marrying another wife shall be punished to life imprisonment»

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.

The Offences Against the Person Act of 1861 made abortion a criminal offence punishable by imprisonment from three years to life.

Okah, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for terrorism last week, was secretly moved from Kuje Prisons, Abuja, by the Nigerian Prison Service (NPS).

Bulger's trial and imprisonment reignited public interest in his life and bloody legacy, resulting in documentary released last year, Whitey: The United States of America vs. James J. Bulger from Joe Berlinger, the director of the Paradise Lost series.

Taking on the considerable task of directing, writing and starring in his film, Everett lavishes great care on a subject he clearly holds in high esteem, and to his credit, does not shy away from painting a less - than - glamorous portrait of an aging Wilde, syphilitic and lecherous as he lives out his exile in Europe following his scandalous imprisonment for gross indecency.

Whoever overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance, cruelly beats, mutilates or kills an animal, or causes or procures an animal to be overdriven, overloaded, driven when overloaded, overworked, tortured, tormented, deprived of necessary sustenance, cruelly beaten, mutilated or killed; and whoever uses in a cruel or inhuman manner in a race, game, or contest, or in training therefor, as lure or bait a live animal, except an animal if used as lure or bait in fishing; and whoever, having the charge or custody of an animal, either as owner or otherwise, inflicts unnecessary cruelty upon it, or unnecessarily fails to provide it with proper food, drink, shelter, sanitary environment, or protection from the weather, and whoever, as owner, possessor, or person having the charge or custody of an animal, cruelly drives or works it when unfit for labor, or willfully abandons it, or carries it or causes it to be carried in or upon a vehicle, or otherwise, in an unnecessarily cruel or inhuman manner or in a way and manner which might endanger the animal carried thereon, or knowingly and willfully authorizes or permits it to be subjected to unnecessary torture, suffering or cruelty of any kind shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 7 years in state prison or imprisonment in the house of correction for not more than 21/2 years or by a fine of not more than $ 5,000 or by both fine and imprisonment; provided, however, that a second or subsequent offense shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 10 years or by a fine of not more than $ 10,000 or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Uganda passed a similar law on February 24, 2014, punishing «aggravated homosexuality» with life imprisonment (revised from an earlier proposal of the bill, in which individuals would receive the death penalty).

for driving under the influence range from a fine of no less than $ 1,000 to a prison term of up to ten years for causing bodily harm and up to life imprisonment for causing death.

2) Penalty for Drug Trafficking or importing: The penalties for drug trafficking or importing (depending on the drug) can range from a non-custodial sentence to a maximum term of life imprisonment.

Reaction is overwhelmingly positive to news that the first case to be featured on the BBC's Crimewatch programme has been solved after a DNA profile produced from evidence at the scene was linked to a family member of the killer on the national database leading the police to the defendant.Paul Stewart Hutchinson pleaded guilty to the murder of 16 - year - old Colette Aram and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 25 years

Punishment varies from a fine or imprisonment of up to ten years, or both; and if death results, or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years, or for life, or may be sentenced to death.

The consequent sentence of mandatory life imprisonment follows on from this basic principle; it is driven, not so much by legal logic, but by the public demand for retribution.

Mrs A commenced her proceedings on 22 December 2004, more than 16 years after the defendant, Iorworth Hoare, had been convicted of attempted rape of her and sentenced to life imprisonment (and who had subsequently been released from prison on licence on 10 May 2004, and had fortuitously won # 7m on the National Lottery, whilst still on day release).

This year I will celebrate #SurvivalDay in recognition that Aboriginal people of Australia have overcome genocide, imprisonment, have had our country taken from us, and yet remain to be the longest known living culture in the world.

Using prospective longitudinal data from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development, we compared boys separated because of parental imprisonment during their first 10 years of life with four control groups: boys who did not experience separation, boys separated because of hospitalization or death, boys separated for other reasons (usually parental disharmony), and boys whose parents were only imprisoned before the boys» births.

In her research of mortality among Indigenous women prisoners after being released from jail in Victoria, Martyres identifies the importance of contextualising a women's life circumstances prior to, during and immediately following imprisonment: