Sentence examples for equivalent punishment from inspiring English sources

Mr. Mutairi asked a judge in northwestern Tabuk Province to impose an equivalent punishment on his attacker under Islamic law, his brother Khaled al-Mutairi said by telephone from the province.

But while a drug dealer can expect a 16-year prison sentence if caught with a significant quantity of a Class A drug, and a six-figure fine (rising to 40 years' imprisonment and, for example, a £3m fine per kilo of cocaine in the United States), the equivalent punishment for rhino horn smuggling is an average jail term of less than two years.

Soering, then serving out his twenty-ninth year, had already exceeded the equivalent German punishment for his crime, and the German courts worked up a mechanism to award him a special, extra-long sentence.

I'm not sure what kind of price you can put on these horrendous violations, but there's clearly a monetary equivalent of punishment here, because it seems to happen worryingly often.

As the example of Andersen showed, merely being criminally indicted was equivalent to capital punishment.

The whole room looks like some futile punishment, equivalent to writing lines in detention, or a Scientology course you'd pay thousands to take.

For his violation of "community standards" Egeland was suspended from Facebook, a form of punishment equivalent to being belted with rotten tomatoes in the stocks.

Blas Calzada, head of the National Stock Market Commission, said the punishment, equivalent to 3percentt of Deloitte's annual revenue in Spain, was "a warning to navigators, because the other auditors are going to be more careful".

Legal Issues Could Play Role While Mr. Rowland may not think that what he has done wrong merits the political equivalent of capital punishment, it is likely that both he and his lawyers have considered the legal ramifications of a resignation.

Clarke said he disagreed with imposing consecutive sentences because it would have been equivalent to the punishment for killing all four victims.

We have to strike a fair balance by ensuring an equivalent level of punishment for words and actions that incite violence and hatred, while at the same time guaranteeing the right to freedom of expression.