Furthermore, the proposed approach can still show encouraging results, given the demand for sentence-based recognition of speech in variant dialog behaviors.
Republicans raged, charging that crime would go up and that prisoners would overwhelm the courts with frivolous demands for sentence reductions.
This month alone the British parliament indulged its regular urge to "get tough", with a demand for longer sentences for knife crime, gun crime, fraud and even fly-tipping.
PARIS — In one of the most surprising verdicts of its checkered prosecution of Balkan war crimes, a United Nations court on Thursday acquitted two close aides of the former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, spurning the prosecution's demand for life sentences for his once all-powerful secret police chief and the chief's deputy.
In one of the most surprising verdicts of its checkered prosecution of Balkan war crimes, a United Nations court on Thursday acquitted two close aides of the former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, spurning the prosecution's demand for life sentences for his once all-powerful secret police chief and the chief's deputy.
In the rest of the world, criminal justice professionals tend to be civil servants who are insulated from popular demands for tough sentencing.
If politicians are sensitive to voters' demands for tougher sentencing, it is also true that voters are afraid of being victims of crimes involving guns.
Debapriya Bhattacharya, a Bangladeshi economist and former United Nations diplomat, said the demands for tough sentencing reflected a broader public desire for closure on the 1971 war, in which rapes and assaults of women were common and an estimated three million people were killed.
But the protests in Shahbagh must be seen as more than a demand for blanket death sentences.
The end of the case prompted a wave of revulsion and demands for severe sentences.
