Sentence examples for guilty prisoners from inspiring English sources

It distinguishes potentially innocent prisoners from the reasons guilty prisoners may maintain their innocence: ignorance, misunderstanding or disagreement with criminal law; to protect another person or group from criminal conviction; or on "abuse of process" or technical grounds in the hope of achieving an appeal.

Mathematicians call this situation the "prisoner's dilemma," because it resembles the plight of guilty prisoners who know they will get reduced sentences if they inform on each other, but also risk being tattled on themselves.

The danger of executing an innocent person is greater than the societal benefit derived from putting a guilty prisoner to death, particularly when reasonable alternatives exist, such as life in prison with no possibility of parole.

*According to the Michigan Department of Corrections, "Prisoner Yost was found guilty of prisoner-on-prisoner sexual misconduct and disobeying a direct order".

The jury found both prisoners guilty, but accorded extenuating circumstances to Rober de Couvrigny.

It is important to recognize that human rights organizations do not act out of sympathy for prisoners guilty of crimes.

The jury found the prisoners guilty and recommended them to leniency, asking the judge to take into consideration the political motives.

Others told of watching as fellow prisoners guilty only of marching and chanting slogans were beaten to death, Mr. Karroubi said.

The word is important for many reasons, because if the USA is guilty of torturing prisoners, then it has numerous implications, not least of which is the loss of the moral high ground when their own captured soldiers are being tortured.

In the interrogations, the Americans browbeat the men: "You're Al Qaeda, you're Al Qaeda!... Where's bin Laden?" Their attitude is that the prisoners are guilty by definition — guilty because they have been captured and sent to Guantánamo.

He rides out the next seven years in more and more "secure" institutions, a prisoner guilty basically of skinny-dipping.