Sentence examples for abolish crimes from inspiring English sources

Among other changes, the criminal code, adopted in 1986, was amended to abolish crimes against state security and reduce the number of crimes punishable by execution, although in general the length of prison terms was increased.

"No one is naïve enough to think any directive will stop accounting fraud at a stroke -- you cannot abolish crime," Mr. Bolkestein said.

It abolishes crime, changes the world, and generally saves humanity from self-destruction.

7. Urges the Thai government to abolish the crime of defamation and to revise the Computer Crime Act which is currently worded overly broadly, in particular the disproportionate prison sentences for such violation.

Matteo Salvini, secretary of the League in Lombardy, called the 48-year-old Kyenge "the symbol of a hypocritical, do-gooding left that would like to abolish the crime of illegal immigration and only thinks about immigrants' rights and not their duties".

In a 2006 Independent article she advised that "We should abolish the crime of rape and expand the assault law".

Last week, another issue that I found intriguing is that Judge Gray suggested abolishing hate crimes.

Technically, however, an amnesty differs from a general pardon in that the latter simply relieves from punishment whereas the former declares innocence or abolishes the crime.

After China abolished the crime of "counterrevolution" in 1997, in what was then hailed as a major advance, the only real change proved to be that political offenders were sentenced under "state security" crimes instead.

The French revolution of 1789 abolished the crime of blasphemy" and courts have consistently upheld the legality of speech directed at religions or historical religious figures, he says.

Safeguard 10,000 police jobs, abolish police and crime commissioners, guarantee neighbourhood policing, ban legal highs, new legislation to end violence against women and girls, tackle extremism and hate crime.