Sentence examples for reduced sentences from inspiring English sources

And in 2008 and again in 2011, Congress reduced sentences for inmates involved with crack cocaine.

The hundreds that have committed crimes against humanity face reduced sentences if they confess.

All four of the Latin Kings who have testified against fellow gang members are likely to receive reduced sentences.

Five other indicted members of the group pleaded guilty in exchange for their cooperation and were given reduced sentences.

Killers have frequently been given reduced sentences by arguing that a woman provoked them, or that their dignity was impugned.

Several Republican-dominated states, including Texas, have reduced sentences and cut the number of people held in their prisons.

Because such inmates could be more dangerous, he argued, they should not be eligible to seek reduced sentences.

His defence told jurors that the governments three witnesses – all former Bulger cohorts – were liars who had blamed Bulger for crimes they had committed to secure reduced sentences.

In the past, murders of women by their partners, fathers or brothers were treated as crimes of passion or "honour", with perpetrators likely to receive reduced sentences.

Jailhouse confessions are notoriously problematic, because the informants are usually other prisoners who obtain reduced sentences for squealing on their fellow inmates.

He and his family want him to face justice in the UK rather than the US, which he said "coerces" people into pleading guilty to get reduced sentences.