Sentence examples for fixed punishments from inspiring English sources

They claim to show Isis militants carrying out "hudud", the system of fixed punishments for what the group's courts regard as serious crimes.

At the sentencing, in March 2008, the judge said the gun crimes carried fixed punishments in Virginia, so his sentence for the weapons charge came to a hundred and eighteen years.

While some crimes, such as premeditated murder, carry fixed punishments under Saudi Arabia's interpretation of the Islamic law, or Shariah, drug-related offences are considered "ta'zir", meaning neither the crime nor the punishment is defined in Islam.

Scottish Premier League clubs have voted at Hampden not to introduce fixed punishments for clubs reforming as new companies known as 'newcos'newcos

Criminal law is governed by Sharia and comprises three categories: hudud (fixed Quranic punishments for specific crimes), Qisas (eye-for-an-eye retaliatory punishments), and Tazir, a general category.

The instructions that the jury was told to reread said that "you may fix the punishment of the defendant at death" if the state proved beyond a reasonable doubt at least one of two aggravating circumstances: that the defendant would continue to be a serious threat to society, or that the crime was "outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible or inhuman".

A CA punishment design allows for higher experimental control over punishment expectations, with a fixed rule for the punishment of free riding.

The cost of punishment was fixed, regardless of the number of players punished, meaning that it was not more costly to punish typical, relative to atypical, behaviour.

For the unmeant attacking users, the punishment is fixed.

Last Monday the first draconian punishments had already been fixed in a judicial process that rode roughshod over international legal standards.

In 1976, in a case called Woodson v. North Carolina, the United States Supreme Court reasoned that "[a] process that accords no significance to relevant facets of the character and record of the individual offender … excludes from consideration in fixing the ultimate punishment of death the possibility of compassionate or mitigating factors stemming from the diverse frailties of humankind".