Sentences with phrase «penalties for the crimes of»

The sentence imposed in your case exceeds the maximum allowable penalty for the crime of which you were convicted;

Not exact matches

There are a lot of people who are opposed to the death penalty not because they think no one ever deserves to die for their crimes, but because they think the government shouldn't have the power to hand out such a punishment, even when that punishment is justified.
Experts also say that tougher penalties for and more prosecution of inside hackers would also be a disincentive for such crimes.
The penalty for the alleged crime: a prison term of as many as eight years.
By the middle of the 19th century, notes Banner, the death penalty had been removed from «crime after crime until none of the northern states used it for any offense other than murder.»
A bill in the Senate of the Philippines would increase the penalty for crimes that involve virtual currency.
SB1694 was announced in a March 13 press release, which relates that if the bill passes, crimes committed «through and with the use of virtual currency, will have a penalty that is one degree higher than what is provided for» by the Revised Penal Code.
In 2014, Florida Statute 825.103 «Exploitation of an elderly person or disabled adult» became effective, which makes it easier for authorities to prosecute persons who exploit elders and increases penalties for crimes committed against elders.
On Saturday, Broward County State Attorney Michael Satz described the crime as «the type of case the death penalty was designed for
The next round of trade sanctions will likely focus entirely on China, and be levied under section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 for penalties of IP theft and technological crimes.
The Enrollment Program also authorizes a superior court to have jurisdiction over enrollees by allowing it to «appoint a receiver, monitor, conservator, or other designated fiduciary or officer of the court for a defendant or the defendant's assets,» as well as authorizes the Commissioner of Business Oversight to «include in civil actions claims for ancillary relief, including restitution and disgorgement, on behalf of a person injured, as well as attorney's fees and costs, and civil penalties of up to $ 25,000» for up to four years after the purported violation occurred and «refer evidence regarding violations of the bill's provisions to the Attorney General, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the United States Department of the Treasury, or the district attorney of the county in which the violation occurred, who would be authorized, with or without this type of a reference, to institute appropriate proceedings.»
Someone should explain to the sales people of this product that the penalty for white collar crime in China is pretty expedient... it's called Execution.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), working in coordination with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California (USAO - NDCA), assessed a $ 700,000 civil money penalty recently against Ripple Labs Inc. and its whollyowned subsidiary, XRP II, LLC (formerly known as XRP Fund II, LLC).
If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice) Clinton, Cardinal Law), jail for embellizing / money laundering (the topic rabbi) and the death penalty or life in prison for murder («Kings David and Henry VIII).
At least all we have to do to avoid the ultimate penalty is to accept Christ and believe in his sacrificial atonement, however, we still have to suffer on earth for humanity crime in the garden of eden.
Considering the history of conflicts between Church and State, it would seem more prudent for Christians, Jews, and others of good will to take the position that the death penalty is justified as long as it is carried out by a lawful sovereign, not inflicted in a cruel and unusual manner, and imposed only on those convicted of heinous crimes by due process of law.
When we have the death penalty for child molesters and those that help hide their crimes we will finally have something closer to true justice for the destruction of the lives of their victims.
In the Middle Ages a number of canonists teach that ecclesiastical courts should refrain from the death penalty and that civil courts should impose it only for major crimes.
For example, North Carolina used the death penalty to assist with the maintenance of slavery; slave - stealing and inciting slaves to insurrection were capital crimes.
It is love to obey God, and by having a swift death penalty we love the people in our society [many of whom are our enemies also] and offer them the best chance for a life free from fear and crime.
Sandusky will probably die in jail for his crimes, those that covered up for him were disgraced, Paterno, and the insti.tution suffered penalties and a loss of reputation.
In our time, we have a legal / moral concept that the penalty for a crime must be proportional to the severity of the crime.
If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pe - dophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law) and the death penalty or life in prison for murder («Kings David and Henry VIII).
(CNN)- The death penalty has been part of human society for millennia, understood to be the ultimate punishment for the most serious crimes.
Even in those structures of justice aiming to be completely impartial — the apprehension of lawbreakers and the affixing of penalties for crime — the best jurisprudence takes into account the maturity and the motive of the offender and the possibilities of remedial as well as of punitive treatment.
If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedop - hiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, imams, married men / women), divorce for ad - ultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law) and the death penalty or life in prison for mur - der («Kings David and Henry VIII).
If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized / «stoned» as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law, archbishop Brady) and the death penalty or life in prison for murder («Kings David and Henry VIII).
I was told Jesus claimed to be God in the flesh (John 1:14 n Phil 2:5 ff; et al.) I was told that in about 30AD Jesus let himself be executed for a crime he did not commit as a way of satisfying Justice for all our injustices — like one who pays a penalty owed by another.
Death is prescribed as the punishment for a host of crimes including murder, treason, kidnapping, idolatry, blasphemy, false prophecy, witchcraft, breaking the Sabbath, rape, adultery, incest, perversion, uttering a curse, striking a parent, bearing false witness in a death penalty trial.
When the crime of rape and child molestation is commited — what should be the penalty for this crime?
Categorical remission of the penalty for all whose crimes deserve death contradicts revealed teaching on the duty of the magistrate and has no warrant in Christian tradition.
We are in danger of another 9/11 attack (but death penalty to Beck for crimes against humanity).
If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law) and the death penalty or life in prison for murder («Kings David and Henry VIII).
I turned intentionally to a life of crime at age twelve and found myself facing the death penalty at age twenty for offenses including conspiracies to commit bank robberies, hijackings, and homicide, and then, after a merciful and undeserved reprieve from God, spent ten years in America's worst prison trying to figure out, among other things, the nature of punishment — and «Saving Punishment» by Stephen Webb is certainly the best meditation I've come across on the subject.
Although statutes still in effect in some states permit the death penalty to be imposed for a variety of offenses — ranging from statutory rape to desecration of a grave to causing death in a duel — murder is virtually the only crime for which it has been recently employed.
That is the point of what Mr. Robertson says (and don't think it pleasures me any to admit the man has ANY good point to present)-- that the penalty way outweighs the crime for the casual user.
If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women, football coaches), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Paterno et al Clinton, Cardinal Law) or child endangerment (Paterno in abstentia, Sandusky et al, Lynn) and the death penalty or life in prison for murder («Kings David and Henry VIII).
Google «crime rate in Singapore» for an example of the deterrent effects of the death penalty.
Pre-trial intervention is not unusual for first - time and non-violent offenders — with good representation, anyway — and can be compared to deferred prosecution, as both paths allow those accused of crimes to pay lesser penalties and avoid convictions and incarceration while satisfying other conditions asked for by prosecutors and set by courts.
Could it be that they all dared to strike goals outside of the penalty area, for which crime they were permanently put on the naughty bench?
Busting gambling rings is labor - intensive work for law - enforcement agencies, and there's little chance that those apprehended and found guilty will receive heavy penalties since much of the public considers gambling a victimless crime.
There are severe penalties for these kinds of violent crimes, and we should not reverse them without deliberation and with the stroke of a pen.»
... subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals,...
«In his prior political offices, Eliot Spitzer brought junk lawsuits which seldom held up in court against New York's leading industries for his own political gain, to the detriment of the citizens of New York; he misused the powers of his offices to «steamroll» legitimate political opposition, and acted with calculated hypocrisy, signing tougher penalties into law for the very crimes he was committing.
A second, briefer but more striking example: Anglicans have been consistently most in favour of the death penalty, 61 % agreeing or agreeing strongly that «for some crimes, the death penalty is the most appropriate sentence» in 2012, down from 68 % in 2005.
The penalty for this crime would largely be a matter of politics - how far is the legislature willing to push?
He's also in favor of increasing the penalties for those who commit gun related crimes and those who shoot first responders.
Article 316 bis second: Crimes of thefts from used materials and tools or those provided for use in the telecommunications, power generating and connecting, water, or sanitary drainage utilities that are established by the government, public authorities or organizations, or the public sector units, or those licensed or establishment as a public utility, shall be punished for with the penalty of imprisonment, if no aggravating condition of those prescribed in Articles 313 to 316 is fulfilled.
Article 316 bis third: A penalty of detention for a period of not less than six months and not exceeding seven years, shall be inflicted for the following crimes:
«Hate crimes is something that we've always looked seriously at, but the increasing of penalties for certain classes, we've started to have problems with that, because we don't want to make it seem like one person's life or the crime that happens to them should have a stiffer penalty than say you or I. So, those have been some of the challenges that we've had.
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