Sentences with phrase «life imprisonment on»

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

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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.

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 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».

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.

there are some people on this forum who had sentenced Saraki to life imprisonment, today they have lost their voices.

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.

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.

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.

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

Uganda passed a similar law on February 24, 2014, punishing «aggravated homosexuality» with life imprisonment (revised from an earlier proposal of the bill, in which individuals would receive the death penalty).

Intimate 1960s drawings, which bear the marks of his itinerant early life between London and Sudan, join haunting 1980s ink - on - paper works made after his imprisonment by the Sudanese government in 1975.

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

In the review, the question that needs to be addressed is whether there have been such changes on the part of the convicted person and whether he or she has made such progress in their resocialisation that the continued implementation of life imprisonment is no longer justified.

2) Penalty for Drug Trafficking or importing: The penalties for drug trafficking or importing (depending on the drug) can range from a non-custodial sentence to a maximum term of life imprisonment.

Reaction is overwhelmingly positive to news that the first case to be featured on the BBC's Crimewatch programme has been solved after a DNA profile produced from evidence at the scene was linked to a family member of the killer on the national database leading the police to the defendant.Paul Stewart Hutchinson pleaded guilty to the murder of 16 - year - old Colette Aram and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 25 years

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.

For a host of reasons, I would expect the calculated guideline range for Nassar on his federal child porn charges to be life imprisonment, and I would predict that he will get a richly deserved statutory maximum sentence of 60 years imprisonment at his upcoming federal sentencing.

The consequent sentence of mandatory life imprisonment follows on from this basic principle; it is driven, not so much by legal logic, but by the public demand for retribution.

Mrs A commenced her proceedings on 22 December 2004, more than 16 years after the defendant, Iorworth Hoare, had been convicted of attempted rape of her and sentenced to life imprisonment (and who had subsequently been released from prison on licence on 10 May 2004, and had fortuitously won # 7m on the National Lottery, whilst still on day release).

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.

The phrase «of chaste life» appears in a bill passed on June 25, 1886: Whoever induces any person under the age of eighteen years of chaste life and conversation to have unlawful sexual intercourse shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, common jail, or house of correction not exceeding three years or by fine not exceeding one thousand...

It also marched with, inter alia, the United Nations Report on Life Imprisonment of 1994 and with the secretary of state's policy and directions under CJA 2003.