Sentence examples for sentencing amount from inspiring English sources

This approach assumes that combining a more searching view of public opinion--abstraction is the enemy of understanding how the capital system works with the informed views of the Justices themselves results in the proper legal test to measure whether capital sentencing amount to cruel and unusual punishment.

Whether either quirk in the defendants' sentencing amounted to a constitutional violation is not easy to say, and the justices spent a good deal of time wrestling with the issues.

His combined sentence amounted to 155 years.

As a result, the new sentence amounts to six years.

Many of his sentences amounted to buzz words strung together, without reaching a point.

Tells fathers annual address to the children which is incomprehensible run-on sentences amounting to nothing.

Justice Konviser-Levine ordered sentences amounting to between 13 and 21 years in prison.

Hutchinson claimed his whole-life sentence amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment as he had no hope of release.

The laws have withstood major legal challenges, including arguments that locking up a criminal after he has served his sentence amounts to double jeopardy.

Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour MP for Islington North who chaired the meeting, said that the sentences amounted to an attack on the Muslim community and the right to protest.

The optimal joint result would require the two of you to keep quiet, so that you both got a light sentence, amounting to a combined six years of jail time.