Sentence examples for crime sentence from inspiring English sources

To analyze pardons, ProPublica selected a random sample of nearly 500 cases decided by Bush and spent a year tracking down the age, gender, race, crime, sentence and marital status of applicants from public records and interviews.

Security classification is based on a person's crime, sentence length, and previous criminal history (CSNSW, 2015) and are an indication of the privileges and restrictions bestowed upon inmates.

Or a gay murder/hate crime sentence is before you.

Izad Chavoshan, 31, of Huntington Beach, is charged with three felony counts of arson and a hate crime sentence enhancement after allegedly setting trash cans ablaze in front of the Orange County Church of Christ in Irvine on three separate occasions from Oct. 15 to 19, 2009, according to the district attorney's office.

5.17pm BST Hello, Lexy Topping here ahead of tonight's knife crime sentencing vote.

Voters pass, for example, "tough on crime" sentencing laws with nary a thought about paying for more prisons.

Since no politician wants to seem soft on crime, sentencing laws have only grown tougher, and often rob judges of discretion in meting out punishment.

But Jack Straw, the home secretary, has refused to implement that portion of the Crime Sentences Act because it is tied up with other, undesirable, measures.

In that capacity, he leads a team of policy analysts and attorneys in developing, reviewing, and evaluating national crime, sentencing, and corrections policy and legislation.

The 1997 Crime Sentences Act imposed minimum three year sentences for repeat burglars, but only came into force in December 1999, partly for fear it would flood overcrowded prisons.

Cameron and Clegg have already made a speciality in government of reversing earlier commitments, from knife crime sentences to free school milk.