Sentences with phrase «against life sentence»

International U.K. has reservations about diplomatic protection for jailed aid worker in Iran, husband says, Reuters Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood leader loses appeal against life sentence, Reuters

Many would argue against a life sentence because it is deemed cruel and inhumane.

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His case was brought to the clinic's attention by a group called Families against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM), which works to reform the kind of extreme sentencing laws that landed Tyler behind bars for life.

In looking for sources of inspiration for the White Rose, Inge Scholl quotes at length the protests from the 1942 sermons of Count Galen, Bishop of Muenster, who forcefully spoke out against the Nazi death sentence for «life which does not deserve to live» (Unwertesleben).

Much of the time it has talked also of a divine judge, whose major concern is with the conduct of those who live in the world, determining their guilt and assigning sentences, either of punishment in hell or reward in heaven, sentences against which his creatures have no appeal.

Through recorded phone conversations with Syed (who is currently serving a life sentence), former classmates and records from the original police investigation and trial, Koening unveils more about the case against Syed each week.

Sandusky's sexual assaults of adolescent males eventually led to an effective life sentence for Sandusky, along with unusual NCAA sanctions (later revoked) against the school and three former PSU admins being sentenced for child endangerment.

1964 Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage against the South African apartheid government.

«Jonnie's excessive sentence for a prank that hurt no one, committed by someone with no criminal record, against a man whose media empire has ruined lives, is yet more evidence of government crackdown on dissent.

Coursera, for example, requests that the learner submits a copy of their identity cards by taking a live picture of them through webcams attached to their devices and, recently, it has given up writing pattern verification where learners have to enter a sentence to compare it against their previous one.

John Carter August 8, 2014 at 12:58 am chooses to state his position on the greenhouse effect in the following 134 word sentence: «But given the [1] basics of the greenhouse effect, the fact that with just a very small percentage of greenhouse gas molecules in the air this effect keeps the earth about 55 - 60 degrees warmer than it would otherwise be, and the fact that through easily recognizable if [2] inadvertent growing patterns we have at this point probably at least [3] doubled the total collective amount in heat absorption and re-radiation capacity of long lived atmospheric greenhouse gases (nearly doubling total that of the [4] leading one, carbon dioxide, in the modern era), to [5] levels not collectively seen on earth in several million years — levels that well predated the present ice age and extensive earth surface ice conditions — it goes [6] against basic physics and basic geologic science to not be «predisposed» to the idea that this would ultimately impact climate.»

My climate enemies have done scientific and other academic frauds; they've destroyed, withheld and pretended to misplace scientific data in order to prevent the human race discovering things about nature; they've forged documents to frame people they don't like; mendaciously and publicly accused innocent people of deplorable crimes that carry prison sentences; betrayed the trust reposed in their professions by fraudulently abrogating to themselves the magical competence to diagnose entire swathes of the (perfectly healthy) population with thought disorders just to score points in an academic bitch fight; deliberately and self - servingly lied to * massive * audiences about the way science itself works — than which I can't for the life of me think of a greater crime against humanity in the recent history of the developed world, can you Joe?

The jury was told that she had pleaded guilty to the second degree murder of Armstrong and was serving a life sentence when she testified against Oakes.

The validity of conspiracy charges in military commissions has been litigated extensively in the case against Ali al Bahlul, a Guantanamo detainee who is serving a life sentence.

McLachlin's remarks are timely given the Shafia «honour - killing» trial that ended in Kingston over the weekend with convictions and life sentences handed down against a man and his parents in the first - degree murder of four family members.

Wyant originally wanted to start allowing live coverage next week of his sentencing verdict in a deadly driving case against a former police officer.

The government, however, successfully challenged a D.C. Circuit panel's invalidation of the conspiracy charge against Ali al Bahlul, who received a life sentence and remains at Guantanamo, in an appeal to the full circuit.

(The third active military commission in pretrial hearings is against Abd al Hadi al Iraqi, who faces a life sentence for alleged war crimes as an al Qaeda commander.)