Sentence examples for sentenced to double from inspiring English sources

Proposition 36 would end life terms for such offenders, who would instead be treated as if they had only one previous strike and be sentenced to double the standard prison term for their latest crime.

But the commutations are particularly significant because they are the first issued under new guidelines announced this year designed to cut costs by reducing the nation's bulging prison population and grant leniency to nonviolent drug offenders sentenced to double-digit terms.

Wolf, Wolf draws a haunting portrait of Matt as an Afrikaner Jekyll and Hyde, a man sentenced to a double life.

Ex-actor Daniel Wozniak sentenced to death in double murder and grisly cover-up.  .

On Tuesday night, another hotly contested case is scheduled to reach its climax with the execution of Steven Woods, who was sentenced to death for a double murder, even though an alleged accomplice later confessed to having pulled the trigger.

In "The Injustice System," the lawyer and writer Clive Stafford Smith (author of the excellent "Eight O'Clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Seeking Justice in Guantánamo Bay") makes a strong case that Krishna Maharaj, a British man sentenced to death for a double murder in Miami 26 years ago, is innocent.

When Duane Buck was sentenced to death for a double murder in Texas 20 years ago, a psychologist had testified that Buck was especially dangerous because he was black.

Here it's the quest for inner peace that drives Burt Lancaster's double murderer, sentenced to solitary confinement for life.

If he loses that bid, he could be sentenced to as many as three years in adult prison — double the sentence in the plea agreement.

Senate Toughs Get Going 07.11.02 The Senate voted to double the sentence for some corporate crimes.

The U.S. Senate continued to work its way through a thicket of proposals for combating corporate fraud Wednesday and voted 97-0 to double the sentence for securities fraud from five years to ten.