Sentences with phrase «life imprisonment if»

Women's access to abortion remains severely limited and they face life imprisonment if they break the law.

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.

Not exact matches

Speaking of their middle - aged friends whose marriages break up, Bernice and Morton Hunt observe: «While middle age can be a lengthy, joyous, liberated, fulfilling, and intensely pleasurable period of life, it is not likely to be any of those (except lengthy) if spent in the imprisonment of an outworn, outgrown, and loveless marriage.

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.

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.

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».

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.

He said: «If you are a cultist and you are caught, it is life imprisonment.

If convicted, Ryan Lawrence can face life imprisonment without parole.

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.

If she is under 13 he could be sentenced to life imprisonment.

While oppressive propaganda echoes throughout, the tone never slides into caricature; if anything, the story unfolds with astounding empathy for those living in constant fear of imprisonment — or worse — but who manage to maintain their humanity against all odds....

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.

If, for example (taking it to the extreme), getting a DUI meant life imprisonment, I'm quite sure people would take incredible care to have a plan to get home when going out to drink.

While acknowledging Kirk's good prison behaviour, he «nevertheless notes the violent circumstances of the crime for which you were sentenced to life imprisonment» (ie kicking a man to death), and that «it is considered that there would be legitimate public concern that the punitive and deterrent elements of your sentence of imprisonment were being circumvented if you were allowed to father a child by artificial insemination while in prison».

If an accused is charged under section 273 of the Criminal Code with Aggravated Sexual Assault, the maximum sentence that the court can impose is a term of life imprisonment.

The death sentence would be automatically suspended substituting a term of life imprisonment but the suspension could be lifted if the DCP criteria were met.

It did so notwithstanding that the inadmissibility ruling in this case — which concerned a complaint that a sentence of life imprisonment was irreducible and thus in violation of Article 3 — had been based on the approach to this issue in a judgment of the Grand Chamber, which the latter had subsequently reversed in a manner that would probably have resulted in Mr Simeonov's complaint being found admissible if it had been determined later.

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.

If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of life imprisonment in federal prison, and a potential lifetime of supervision.

If charged under section 273 of the Criminal Code with Aggravated Sexual Assault, the maximum penalty that can be imposed upon conviction is life imprisonment.

For an offence other than those punishable with the death penalty, life imprisonment, or with a minimum punishment of imprisonment for not less than three years, the prosecutor may render a deferred prosecution after considering the public interest if a deferred prosecution is appropriate.

The penalty if convicted is life imprisonment without parole eligibility for a minimum of 10 years, and potentially 25 years.

If convicted under s. 220 (b), 249.2 and 249.3 a discharge is not available under s. 730 (1) as it is «an offence for which a minimum punishment is prescribed by law or an offence punishable by imprisonment for fourteen years or for life».

A person who, without lawful authority, manufactures, possesses, sells, delivers, sends, mails, displays, uses, threatens to use, attempts to use, or conspires to use, or who makes readily accessible to others a weapon of mass destruction commits a felony of the first degree, punishable by imprisonment for a term of years not exceeding life or as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084, and if death results, commits a capital felony, punishable as provided in s. 775.082.

Section 15 (1) substitutes a new para 6 of Pt 1 of Sch 1, BA 1976 and provides that if defendants are 18 years or over and it appears to the court that, having been released on bail in or in connection with the proceedings for an offence that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, they failed to surrender to custody, they may not be granted bail unless the court is satisfied that there is no significant risk that, if released on bail, they would fail to surrender to custody.

This paragraph provides that if defendants are 18 years or over and it appears that they committed an offence that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment while on bail in criminal proceedings, they may not be granted bail unless the court is satisfied that there is no significant risk of their committing an offence while on bail.