Sentence examples for convicted on testimony from inspiring English sources

And last week hundreds of people protested outside a Georgia prison as that state executed a man, Troy Davis, who was convicted on testimony that was later recanted.

In 1934 Touhy was convicted, on perjured testimony, of kidnapping one John "Jake the Barber Factorr in June July 1933, a period when Factor, as it was later proved, had been hiding out to avoid extradition to England on a swindling charge.

Then again, criminal kingpins are often convicted on the testimony of morally dubious underlings.

The former inmate, Thomas L. Goldstein, was convicted on the testimony of the aptly named Edward F. Fink.

"Bacanovic was convicted on the testimony of Stewart's assistant and his own assistant".

The men were convicted on the testimony of a single crack-addicted prostitute, who worked for the police as an informer.

But defense lawyers who were involved in those cases said the governor's proposal would make it harder to exonerate inmates convicted on false testimony, not easier.

When Mr. Williams came to trial two years later, he was convicted on the testimony of the only witness to come forward, a 12-year-old girl.

Mr. Wong, who was serving time for armed robbery, was convicted on the testimony of two witnesses, and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

Even if the jury had seen Mr. Stewart as part of the prosecution, she added, "Stewart was convicted on the testimony of Bacanovic's assistant, her own assistant, and her best friend".

Review of "Papillon" or "Butterfly" a best-seller by the incongruous underworld nickname of a former unimportant safeblower, Henri Charriere, convicted on false testimony (he said) of the murder of a Montmatre pimp and condemned to life imprisonment on the various penal isles of French Guiana and the South American coast.