Sentences with phrase «life imprisonment in»

If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of life imprisonment in federal prison, and a potential lifetime of supervision.
The applicant, Kirk Dickson, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1994 with a tariff of 15 years.
Along with Nelson Mandela, Mr Kathrada was among eight African National Congress activists sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964.

Not exact matches

«Keeping in view the facts and evidences in the case, I sentence Shiv Kumar Yadav, to rigorous life imprisonment,» Additional Sessions Judge Kaveri Baweja told the court.
Despite the limitations imposed by poor diet and imprisonment, life in Changi Prison was a relative haven of peace compared with what would follow.
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.
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.
was convicted in a Pakistani court earlier this month of breaking the country's controversial blasphemy law, a crime punishable with death or life imprisonment, according to Pakistan's penal code.
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.
Shameful for any person to think life imprisonment, shaming, or public humiliation is acceptable in any form.
The man who grabbed the money and pulled the trigger was shortly thereafter arrested — and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment by this very judge in this very courtroom.
Rev Kuwa Shamal Abazmam Kurri who faced the death penalty or life imprisonment was acquitted of all charges in January, while Christian aid worker Jasek from the Czech Republic received a presidential pardon and left Sudan in February.
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 faithIn 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 faithin 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.
For serious crimes and dangerous criminals, they propose life imprisonment, but a man in jail for life does not return to society either.
Particularly in the complexity of antagonist Ruth Langmore (newcomer Julia Garner, who may be on her way to becoming the next Jennifer Lawrence), a scrappy teenager who lives in squalor with her drunk uncles due to her father's imprisonment.
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.
(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)
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 course, run by prison officers, looks at families and how they can be affected by imprisonment, as well as ways of remaining involved in their children's 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.
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.
This was used and cited the most often in cases of inmates who had been given the death penalty: from 1965 to 1993 (when the death penalty was formally abolished) death sentences were automatically commuted to life imprisonment under the Royal Prerogative.
The law imposes a penalty of life imprisonment on kidnapping for ransom and death penalty in the event of death of a kidnapped victim.
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.
Authorities of the Nigerian Army said yesterday that the review panel put in place by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai to re-investigate and review death sentences, life imprisonment, and dismissals meted out -LSB-...]
In a 2005 study of 454 undergraduates, psychologist Sari Gold of Temple University and her colleagues revealed that students who had experienced nontraumatic stressors, such as serious illness in a loved one, divorce of their parents, relationship problems or imprisonment of someone close to them, reported even higher rates of PTSD symptoms than did students who had lived through bona fide traumIn a 2005 study of 454 undergraduates, psychologist Sari Gold of Temple University and her colleagues revealed that students who had experienced nontraumatic stressors, such as serious illness in a loved one, divorce of their parents, relationship problems or imprisonment of someone close to them, reported even higher rates of PTSD symptoms than did students who had lived through bona fide traumin a loved one, divorce of their parents, relationship problems or imprisonment of someone close to them, reported even higher rates of PTSD symptoms than did students who had lived through bona fide trauma.
Yet his recompense has been two years in prison under difficult conditions, a blatantly unfair trial lasting two years in the so - called «Fast Track» Sessions Court, an unjust conviction of sedition and conspiracy, and condemnation to life imprisonment.
In 1992 Guy Paul Morin, a Canadian, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of a nine - year - old girl.
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.
In society at large, however, novators were treated with suspicion; subject to life imprisonment (or worse)-- their ideas seen to undermine existing social, political and religious power structures.
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.
A person convicted of the offense of sexual abuse of children shall be punished by life imprisonment or by imprisonment in the.
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.
Opening Shot: A close - up of Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon) staring ahead as we hear a voice over of Grace talking about all the things she's been called in her life, especially during her murder trial and imprisonment.
Sentenced to life imprisonment, he would languish in prison for ten years till his plight came to the attention of the Innocence Project.
Bulger's trial and imprisonment reignited public interest in his life and bloody legacy, resulting in documentary released last year, Whitey: The United States of America vs. James J. Bulger from Joe Berlinger, the director of the Paradise Lost series.
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.
«We felt the imprisonment of being a teenage girl,» says Giovanni Ribisi's narrator — and I felt it too in Marie Antoinette, whose life was dictated by the rule of men, and her autonomy found in the form of excess as rebellion.
Stay Tuned takes that fantasy and turns it into a nightmare, with protagonists that don't want to live in this fantasy world, especially when it will most likely mean certain eternal imprisonment or death.
At the end of the film, Killmonger makes another statement about living in imprisonment and bondage that gestures toward the turbulent life experiences that fuel his angst.
A moving account of the award - winning illustrator's childhood in Nazi - occupied Poland, her imprisonment in a series of concentration camps, and her life after the war as a displaced person in Sweden.
Stalin's deportation and imprisonment of Lithuanian families in Siberia is brought to vivid life in Sepetys» searing novel, narrated by 15 - year - old Lina, who begins, «They took me in my nightgown.»
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....
Unaware of the details or the implication of them, most investors who are investing in NPS are sending their money to life imprisonment.
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.
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