Sentence examples for crime was convicted from inspiring English sources

"There have been executions of people who were juveniles at the time the crime was convicted, those with mental and physical impairment and often these convictions are the result of unfair trials," Patel says.

Mr. Karabasevic was arrested, confessed to the crime, was convicted and is now serving time in an Austrian prison.

Mr. Leka, 35 at the time of the crime, was convicted of fatally shooting Mr. Ferati on Ocean Avenue at 6 p.m. on Feb. 12 , 1988

Mr. Willingham, an unemployed auto mechanic with a history of petty crime, was convicted of setting his house in Corsicana on fire in 1991.

MEXICO CITY — A 15-year-old whom the authorities had accused of beheading four men as a hired killer for a drug cartel, highlighting the pull of young people into organized crime, was convicted on Tuesday and sentenced to three years in prison.

All this, in a federal legal system in which the overwhelming majority of defendants charged with a crime are convicted.

Just imagine a criminal who gets caught for a crime, is convicted, goes through sentencing and is sincerely contrite for his crime.

Dita's boyfriend, Cass Gianis, a police cadet, immediately confesses to the crime, is convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years in a minimum-security prison.

Even when people who carry out computer related crimes are convicted the sentences have generally been lenient.

Eighty-seven percent of defendants charged with federal crimes were convicted in the fiscal year 1998, and 71percentt of those who were convicted were sentenced to prison, the Justice Department reported today.

"These are all people who've committed crimes, were convicted, served their terms, and have kept their noses clean for, most of them, going on 20 years," she said.