Sentences with phrase «including life imprisonment»

The member of the Ugandan Parliament behind a controversial «anti-gay» bill that would call for stiff penalties against homosexuality - including life imprisonment and the death penalty - says that the bill will become law «soon.»

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Last week, a judge in Verona dismissed a host of criminal charges against veterinary researcher and former politician Ilaria Capua, including allegations that she deliberately set off avian influenza outbreaks that also caused a human epidemic — a crime that would have been punishable with life imprisonment if proven.

The 10 finalists shortlisted for the completion include the controversial Scarlet Road, which looks at the sex lives of people with disabilities; Dancing with Dictators, which focuses on the arrest and imprisonment of Australian newspaper publisher Ross Dunkley by the Burmese government; and I'm Not Dead Yet, where the life of influential and politically incorrect Australian country singer Chad Morgan is looked upon.

Beyond just the danger of imprisonment, including life in prison in some cases, a drug conviction can have a significant impact on your life.

Writing in this week's NLJ, Bindman says the home secretary's Modern Slavery Bill consolidates existing laws and imposes tougher sentences for offences, including potential life imprisonment for kidnapping and false imprisonment.

There will be heavier sentences, including the possibility of life imprisonment where there has been kidnapping and false imprisonment.

Special courts have been established and have handed down many criminal sentences, including execution and life imprisonment.

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.