Sentence examples for sentences less than from inspiring English sources

While Mr Mubarak and his former minister of interior, Habib al-Adly, each received life sentences (less than the death penalty for which many had hoped) for their role in brutally suppressing last year's revolt, six lieutenants of Mr Adly were acquitted.

Analysis by sentence length (Table 8) showed that AUDIT scores tended to be higher among those whose sentences were shorter (e.g. 45% with sentences less than six months had Zone IV scores).

Rather, it is any evidence which in fairness may serve as a basis for a sentence less than death.

Any sentence less than life for Mladić is likely to trigger protests from survivors and victims' families.

Prosecutors said that should argue for a sentence less than the 33 to 41 months suggested in the law.

For decades, prosecutors relied on psychiatrists to testify that the accused would commit violent crimes again if given a sentence less than death.

In some cases, prosecutors will write to a judge, describing a defendant's assistance and allowing a sentence less than a mandatory minimum term.

It is hardly reassuring that fully 75percentt of the people whose capital sentences were overturned by state courts because of serious error were found upon retrial to deserve a sentence less than death.

Any sentence less than life hardly meets the scale of the alleged offence, but what does "life" in prison mean in the case of a 90-year-old man?

To that end, Guzek argues that once state law has made the evidence relevant at the sentencing phase of the trial, the Eighth Amendment requires that he, as a capital defendant, is "entitled to the full moral weight of [his] evidence in favor of a sentence less than death". See id.

By the time we reach this sentence, less than a third of the way through his book, it's a safe bet that the giddy rhapsodizing of Jack Kerouac's On the Road is out of the question.