Sentences with phrase «life sentence»

The statistics show that of the 140 people who were returned to prison from 2005 - 2006, 87 had been serving life sentences.

Most of the older age diagnoses are not end of life sentences.

Both were given life sentences and had begun doing their time.

«Without access to a proper, decent learning and training we are passing de facto life sentences on young offenders,» she said.

Second - degree murder carries a mandatory life sentence.

Some have to be in there for their whole life sentence.

Most felony sex crimes carry very long prison sentences, and some of them carry life sentences.

Fortunately, it's a great song, so as life sentences go, you could do worse.

Life sentences don't exist, putting the focus on rehabilitation instead of punishment.

He is equipped to handle serious and violent felony crimes including life sentence cases.

Fortunately for us with a gluten - free life sentence, food manufacturers are realizing we exist and are here to stay.

Her mother and her mother's partner were charged and convicted of first - degree murder and are serving life sentences.

In The American Lawyer article, «Has the Clemency Project Been a Success,» Carlton Fields was ranked as one of the «standout supporters,» of The Clemency Project, an initiative where attorneys review the cases of inmates serving life sentences for drug crimes, which, if sentenced under today's guidelines, would possibly qualify for reduced sentences and a prison release.

Barton has also had to deal with the fact his younger half - brother Michael Barton and his cousin Phil Taylor were found guilty of murdering black student Anthony Walker with an axe in a racially - motivated attack in Liverpool, and are now serving life sentences in prison.

In the first case, which was handled by a public defender, he was sentenced to death and in the two which I tried, he received life sentences without the jury knowing about the first case.

It wasn't our personal prospective of palliative care we looked at, but the situation of Aboriginal people in remote areas of the Northern Territory, South and Western Australia who face potential life sentences with end stage kidney disease; people who as young as 22 years old face a dire future.

Other Xi rivals have already received life sentences for corruption, such as former Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai and Ling Jihua, an aide to former President Hu Jintao who also worked as vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

«We will cease to treat IPPs like life sentence prisoners, and instead manage them through the closed estate in the same way as determinate sentence prisoners.»

It is also true that this Court has not heretofore invalidated a mandatory life sentence under the Eighth Amendment.

In March of 1993 Derrick Williams was found guilty of kidnapping, sexual battery, robbery, grand theft auto, two counts of battery and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences in prison.

Thus in Secretary of State for the Home Department, e x parte Doody [1994] 1 AC 531, [1993] 3 All ER 92, where the issue was whether the home secretary was under a duty to give reasons for a decision relating to the prescribed period which a mandatory life sentence prisoner must serve before being eligible for parole, the House of Lords held that the decision in question was sufficiently important for it to be accompanied by reasons.

(The Palm Beach Post, Accomplice gets life sentence for burglar's death)

During this time, the board accepted 21.3 per cent of requests for parole from life sentence offenders, who include rapists and murderers.

Fifty - three people given life sentences since 2000 have been freed from jail, the Home Office has admitted.

It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley.

The difference between Nubo and most other dogs is that he is serving a government - imposed life sentence of house arrest.

Rice had been sentenced to a discretionary life sentence for attempted rape in 1989 and, after serving more than 15 years, was released on life license in November 2004.

He has since stated in appeals that he was «coerced» to plead guilty by both the prosecutor and his court - appointed attorney because he would face a possible life sentence in a jury trial.

We, the [45] undersigned Nobel Laureates, respectfully express our astonishment and dismay at the unjust life sentence handed down last month in India to a fellow scientist and human rights advocate, 61 - year - old Dr. Binayak Sen.

Danny Duchene was nearly 20 years into a double life sentence in Californias Sierra Prison when he first encountered Saddleback Church.

Trinh Xuan Thanh, the former chairman of PetroVietnam's construction arm, was snatched off a Berlin street in July only to reappear in Vietnam, where he was given two life sentences earlier this year for...

On 10 February, 45 Nobel laureates around the world signed a petition for his release, expressing «astonishment and dismay at the unjust life sentence handed down last month in India to a fellow scientist.»

Earlier this month, two men were given life sentences after stealing ¥ 15.6 billion ($ 2.44 billion) from over 200,000 investors.

He was given concurrent life sentences, with a minimum term of seven years, for 16 offences of rape and buggery against six victims.

International U.K. has reservations about diplomatic protection for jailed aid worker in Iran, husband says, Reuters Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood leader loses appeal against life sentence, Reuters

Human rights campaigners Liberty have also warned that greater use of the indeterminate life sentences introduced under the 2003 act, where people face never being released, could act as a disincentive for prisoners to engage in rehabilitation.

I love it when a patient realizes that she can alter her presumed life sentence of low sex drive with a particular form of meditation (like OM), a natural plant - based supplement like phosphatidylserine, and a

A judge has ordered a new trial for a Wisconsin Rapids man serving a virtual life sentence for a 1987 sexual assault he has always denied.

First degree murder bears an automatic life sentence with no possibility of parole for 25 years.

«It is ironic that after serving time in the county jail and being threatened with a potential life sentence, Ray McCann pleaded no contest to a charge of perjury when, in fact, he had told the truth and the charge itself was based on police fabrications,» said Michigan Innocence Clinic Director David Moran.

Simply the fact that people, who were given life sentences whether they were juveniles in Pennsylvania or or they were third strikers in California that their track record after their release shows really low rates of recidivism is meaningful.

They are individuals who received unduly harsh sentences under outdated laws for committing largely nonviolent drug crimes, for example, the 35 individuals whose life sentences were commuted today.

Approaching fidelity, not as a burdensome life sentence, but as a pathway — the only pathway — to a highly desirable set of goals, makes it a positive style of relating.

Sandusky's sexual assaults of adolescent males eventually led to an effective life sentence for Sandusky, along with unusual NCAA sanctions (later revoked) against the school and three former PSU admins being sentenced for child endangerment.

According to the report, only 4.7 % of adults who serve indeterminate or life sentences reoffend in the first year after their release, 15 % of those sentenced to more than ten years and 30 % of those sentenced to between four and ten years.

The row, which has put the British government at odds with the ECHR, followed appeals by three murderers who argued their whole - life sentence constitute «inhuman and degrading treatment».