Sentences with phrase «gravity of the crime»

The gravity of the penalty mirrored the gravity of the crime.

The question to ask about the retributive purpose of capital punishment is this: Is it possible for punishment to signify the gravity of crimes which deserve death if their perpetrators are never visited with execution?

She also spoke of the gravity of his crime and its consequences, but coupled that with a message of grace.

And too many Catholic bishops ignored or failed to grasp the gravity of this crime in addressing the problem.

-LSB-... The Church] makes clear the gravity of the crime committed, the irreparable harm done to the innocent who is put to death, as well as to the parents and the whole of society.»

A lot more has to be done to minimise the gravity of their crime after they threatened on a live radio programme to kill some Supreme Court judges, he stressed.

The gravity of a crime is defined by a charge and the law.

The European Commission also feels that the Framework Decision «does not fully address the potential threat posed to society by large scale attacks and does not take sufficient account of the gravity of the crimes and sanctions against them».

In the Court's view, a judge should have the discretion to consider the relevant circumstances of the case (such as nature of the rights that had been violated, the manner and degree of the violation, the gravity of the crime being tried, the manner in which the offence was committed, as well as the severity of the sentence the offence attracts) and determine whether the evidence should be admissible or not.

In choosing to reverse some of the more contentious findings, while maintaining the life sentence due to the gravity of the crimes, the SCC has hopefully improved the reputation of the ECCC's jurisprudence and enhanced its contribution to international criminal law more broadly.

After all, at the heart of the series is a legal case that, despite the gravity of the crime involved, looks harrowingly «normal» in its details.