Sentence examples for penal sentence from inspiring English sources

An online petition criticising the potential penal sentence gathered more than half a million signatures.

Last year, organic winegrower Emmanuel Giboulot faced a potential penal sentence for going against official instructions to spray crops, arguing the insecticide harmed beneficial pollinating insects.

Even though the judges erred on the side of harshness, a penal sentence of four years amounts to one year for every 75,000 lives taken while Gröning was in Auschwitz.

Same-sex marriages and euthanasia were legalized, and penal sentences were relatively light.

Russian protest leader Alexei Navalny on Thursday returned to Moscow a free man after a court in the northern Kirov region turned his five-year penal colony sentence in a controversial fraud case into a suspended term.

Brown's office was quick to point out Monday's federal court order giving the state until early 2016 to reduce crowding notes that the state only "will consider the establishment of a commission to recommend reforms of state penal and sentencing laws". Spokesman Jim Evans noted that was not a "promise" to create such a commission.

Completed in 1811, this austere building served as the county's penal institution (maximum sentence was 12 months) for 154 years.

Below these are courts of first instance, courts of judicial proceedings (which do not pass sentences), penal courts, and municipal courts.

The mastermind of this cunning plot was diamond merchant Joseph Cammi Grizzardrd, who was caught after a sting operation and given seven years' penal servitude; shorter sentences in those days, but harsher regimes.

In 1962, when it last revised its Model Penal Code on sentencing, which is a blueprint for states to follow in shaping their laws, the group called for prisoners sentenced to life to be considered for parole after 1 to 10 years.

Ismet Elezi, a professor of criminal law at the University of Tirana, who advises the government and the police on how to tackle the problem, said recent changes to Albania's penal code — including sentences of 25 years to life in prison for those who kill in a blood feud and stiff penalties for individuals who threaten to retaliate — had helped diminish the practice.