Sentence examples for reduce punishment from inspiring English sources

Turkey has approved sweeping legislation that would make it harder to reduce punishment for "honor" killings, but such killings continue in the nation's remote areas.

The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act would not solve all the problems in the criminal justice system, but it would reduce punishment for thousands of individuals and, on balance, create a fairer and more effective system.

But her administration has also revised the Forest Code to reduce punishments for illegal landowners, and pressed ahead with infrastructure projects that are another cause of tension.

Judges in many cases can set aside verdicts that they believe are unsupported by the evidence, but they generally have no power in mandatory-minimum cases to reduce punishments below levels established through legislation.

The day after California voted to reduce punishments, police agencies, defense attorneys, prosecutors and even some advocates were scrambling to figure out exactly how it was going to work.

Randomized controlled trials using a parenting intervention to reduce punishment-oriented strategies can be used to test this punishment sensitivity hypothesis.

And most of those pleas involve a deal that reduces punishment.

But in the past judges reduced punishment keeping in mind humanitarian work," another member of parliament and Bollywood singer Babul Supriyo said.

According to the transcript, the questionnaire asked prospective jurors their opinions about whether cooperating witnesses involved in plea agreements should receive reduced punishment; whether the federal government is tough enough on people accused of "lying in interviews"; and whether they believe defense lawyers are "less truthful than prosecuting attorneys".

For a suspect who is also a witness in the same case, "their testimony can be an object of deliberation by the judge in reducing punishment," the law states.

In contrast to high and less stable serotonin availability underlying a heightened emotional reactivity, low and stable serotonin availability might underlie reduced punishment sensitivity.