Sentence examples for Mild sentence from inspiring English sources

Harich himself drew a remarkably mild sentence for a crime punishable by death.

He was also tried, and a relatively mild sentence — a fine — was handed down from the very top.

"It's time to better protect the American people and our values by bringing swift and sure justice to terrorists through our courts and our Uniform Code of Military Justice," Obama said in August, after the completion of the first trial at Guantanamo Bay, which resulted in a relatively mild sentence for Osama bin Laden's driver.

The mild sentence drew complaints from secularist groups but it is another sign of the building momentum for enforcing the rule of law against self-appointed religious police.The same day the parliament passed, after years of debate, a controversial "porn bill" sought by Islamists but backed by some secular parties in an attempt to look pious.

The Jamaican-born coach was eventually given a relatively mild sentence, largely because the jury was unimpressed with the prosecution's "true devil" of a witness.

The defense also seemed surprised by the relatively mild sentences.

The helmsman, Jacob Rusli Bin, is one of five Costa employees granted plea bargains in return for mild sentences in a separate proceeding.

REINECKE: In my opinion this document represents, in the second part where it gives an explanation for the mild sentences on the two SS men, a personal opinion of Kriegsgerichtsrat Lipski, who as the presiding judge passed the sentences.

As the mild sentences rolled by, I found myself wishing the Unabomber or the boys who carried out the Columbine massacre would take the stage for a chapter or two.

Here, the C.O. went on, it was mild sentences that were the order of the day, and, what was more, they became even milder when they were up for review; safe and professionally idealistic back home, he said, the legal experts of military appellate bodies invariably looked with suspicion upon the administration of justice in war zones.

Vatican criminal law, according to Papanti Pelletier, envisions "very mild" sentences: "In Italy, prison sentences are much harsher," he said.