Sentences with phrase «life imprisonment for»

Mr Dickson was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder.

The offence will carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment for some categories of cyberattack.

The Lithuanian Anthony Sawoniuk was sentenced in 1999 under the War Crimes Act 1991 to life imprisonment for two murders in Eastern Europe.

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.

Unless we start sentencing every offender to life imprisonment for every offence, we have to deal with the reality that virtually every single custodial inmate will eventually return to society (most of them in relatively short order).

He was sentenced to life imprisonment for these offences.

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.

The legislation, signed into law on 24 February by Uganda President Yoweri Museveni, mandates prison terms of up to 14 years for homosexual acts and life imprisonment for «aggravated homosexuality,» such as sexual acts with a minor.

In 1992 Guy Paul Morin, a Canadian, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of a nine - year - old girl.

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

Another soldier, Sergeant Innocent Ototo, was sentenced to life imprisonment for manslaughter after torturing and killing a 13 year old boy who he said stole his phone.

Others unable to travel will buy abortion medication online through sites such as Women on Web — however, if they do, they risk life imprisonment for «procuring (their) own miscarriage».

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

(that have resulted in the law passed recently in the news regarding jailing of gays there and life imprisonment for persons who do not report gays)

Even before Yigal Amir was sentenced to life imprisonment for the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, a related trial had already been concluded in the court of public opinion.

Yet his flight led to the removal and subsequent sentencing to life imprisonment for corruption of Chongqing's leader, Bo Xilai, formerly one of China's most powerful politicians.

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.

Not exact matches

«Whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery... the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where men are treated as mere tools for profit, rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others of their like are infamies indeed... they are a supreme dishonour to the Creator.»

For another thing, we needed to illustrate how disproportionate mere life imprisonment is to certain offenses.

Suffice it to say that there are few quotidian moments in Gerard's account of a life and an apostolate lived for nearly twenty years against the background of the real risk of arrest, imprisonment, torture and horrible, but longed for, martyrdom.

Shameful for any person to think life imprisonment, shaming, or public humiliation is acceptable in any form.

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.»

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

In this state of imprisonment, Rodrigues experiences the lowliness of missionary life for himself: He is kept in custody by Inoue, Lord of Chikugo, until he apostatizes or renounces his faith.]

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.

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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.

It has been argued that, even if the penalty of life imprisonment were acceptable on other grounds, our society could not reasonably be asked to pay the cost of maintaining convicted murderers in prisons for the remainder of their natural lives.

This argument, based not strictly on deterrence but on incapacitation of known offenders, is inconclusive, since there are other effective means of protecting the innocent against convicted murderers — for example, imprisonment of murderers for life in high - security institutions.

The law is the law, and Christianity didn't make that much of a difference in their life anyway, so why risk imprisonment for something that can just as easily be had through the Kiwanis Club or a Bowling League?

The president of Uganda, Kaguta Yoweri Museveni on 24th of February, signed in a new law whereby a gay person will be jailed for 14 years and if caught on committing the crime on a second instance they will serve a life imprisonment.

Any doctor who does intervene in this way could face prosecution for murder, which carries a sentence of life imprisonment.

He said, «On consular issues, Nigeria recognises the drugs emergency situation in Indonesia and pleaded for commuting death penalty to life imprisonment.»

Lawyers for the Uzbek man charged in the truck attack on a crowded Manhattan bike path that killed eight people on Halloween said that their client would plead guilty and accept life imprisonment without parole if prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty.

The law imposes a penalty of life imprisonment on kidnapping for ransom and death penalty in the event of death of a kidnapped victim.

However, it is for parliament to legislate for that change and it has thus far failed to do so, leaving those who help a terminally ill or incurably suffering loved one to die facing life imprisonment, and taking away autonomy and choice for people at end of life.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Section 287 stipulates three - year jail term for offenders, while kidnapping offences in Lagos State attract a penalty of life imprisonment or capital punishment.

Regarding the punishment that accused Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should face if found guilty of the attack, 59 percent of those surveyed replied that he should be executed, while 35 percent responded that he should be sentenced to life imprisonment without the chance for parole.

Back home in India, it continues to be a long uphill battle to get justice for the LGBTQ community as Section 377 of the Indian Penal code still bans «carnal intercourse against the order of nature» — an act punishable by life imprisonment.

Her imprisonment made me that much more committed to choosing life and freedom, and to be the mother I ached for my entire life.

Munir Hassan Mohammed, 37, was sentenced to life imprisonment, and Rowaida El - Hassan, 33, was jailed for 12 years.

Munir Mohammed was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 14 years, while accomplice Rowaida El - Hassan was jailed for 12 years and five more under licence conditions.

Foley's family members, colleagues and prison cell mates vividly recount his 2011 imprisonment in Libya, his difficulty reacclimating to home life in sleepy New England after his release, before leaving again for Syria and enduring imprisonment by ISIS.

Sentenced to life imprisonment, he would languish in prison for ten years till his plight came to the attention of the Innocence Project.

Meanwhile, Ares (the God of War) has escaped his imprisonment at the hands of the Amazonians and has decided to exact his revenge by starting a World War that will last for centuries and wipe out every living being on the planet, starting with the Amazons.

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.

It's not until the film's final sequence — an extraordinary climax that picks up the slack for what came before — that one is really convinced that the love between these characters is the matter of life and death, of imprisonment or freedom, that it is meant to be.

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.

Despite their imprisonment, these humans, after generations of silo living — and with very little awareness of what the outside world is like — have adapted and have found their own forms of happiness and reasons for living.

Nevertheless, they find him guilty and he's sentenced to life imprisonment; but nine years later he's on parole and out for vengeance.