Sentence examples for sentenced for committing from inspiring English sources

47% were placed because they were on remand or sentenced for committing a serious offence.

Manafort's lawyers observed that President Trump himself added to their concern, when he tweeted that his former aide got a "tough sentence," incorrectly suggesting that Manafort had been sentenced for committing a crime, rather than having his bail revoked for violating its terms.

Further, the public official in question must be tried, convicted, and sentenced for committing the crime of torture.[21] Obviously, there are (to say the least) mitigating circumstances, and the sentence should be commuted to, say, one day in prison.

Nationwide, the number stands at around 2,589; of these, only a small fraction — seventy-nine — were sentenced for crimes committed when they were 14 or younger.

In 2005, a new system of early release was introduced, which applied only to offenders sentenced for offences committed after 4 April , 2005

Thirty-seven people have been convicted and sentenced for crimes committed in Prijedor in the nineteen-nineties; the I.C.T.Y. sentenced twelve of them, while the others were tried domestically, in a war-crimes court in Sarajevo.

Since so many incarcerated individuals are sentenced for crimes committed during adolescence it is important that neuroscience contributions become more widely incorporated in courtrooms and correctional facilities.

The hearing will again be held under a new state law that makes it easier for inmates sentenced for crimes committed as juveniles to be freed.

Karadžić is the highest-ranking official to be sentenced for genocide committed during the Bosnian war, in which 100,000 people were killed and more than 2.2 million fled their homes.

In November 2014 two Americans, Kenneth Bae and Matthew Miller were released after receiving similar sentences for committing ostensibly minor crimes in the country.

IN a filthy Ethiopian prison that is overridden with lice, fleas and huge rats, two Swedes are serving an 11-year prison sentence for committing journalism.