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A handful of death sentences were handed down to joke-tellers, though the true reason for this was rarely their actual "crime".

Last year, 49 death sentences were handed down nationwide.

Later sentences were handed down in a more forgiving time.

Nine-year sentences were handed down to Abdulkadyr Kadyrov and Magomed Magomedov.

The defendants punched their air with their fists and shouted "peacefully" as their sentences were handed down, according to relatives.

The sentences were handed down in a hushed courtroom by a three-judge panel, before an overflowing public gallery.

Prison sentences are handed out freely.

"Whereas if we get a defendant of lesser circumstance, pretty heavy sentences are handed down comparatively".

For largely petty offences, the harsh sentences being handed down have a distinctly showy quality to them.

But the sentence was criticised by civil rights campaigners who expressed general unease about the severity of some of the sentences being handed out.

As the last sentences are handed down, and a movie of their crime begins shooting, Lena Corner gets the inside story on this very post-modern scandal.