Sentence examples for sentencing procedures from inspiring English sources

During sentencing procedures, the relatives of crime victims are often given an opportunity to describe their loss to the court in emotionally gripping ways.

State Representative Jim Dunnam, a Democrat from Waco, has introduced legislation to conform capital sentencing procedures in Texas to those in some other states.

Clarifies the sentencing procedures for youth offenders; creates the youth conditional caution and the youth rehabilitation order, a generic community sentence.

Colombia's government will seek to stiffen prison sentencing procedures after the government failed to prevent the early release of a former top leader of the multibillion-dollar Cali cartel cocaine empire, President Álvaro Uribe said today.

Legal scholars have already critiqued the sentencing procedures at the ad hoc tribunals, and the Rome Statute does little more than refer to the gravity of the offense and the individual circumstances of the criminal.

In Mr. Abu-Jamal's case, the court granted review sought by the prosecution and ordered the federal appeals court in Philadelphia to take account of a decision last week that clarified capital sentencing procedures.

The sentencing procedure in use in Kansas these days is a reaction to a 2001 decision by its Supreme Court, which struck down the state's sentencing law with the same reasoning later used by the United States Supreme Court.

In a Supreme Court argument today on the constitutionality of New Jersey's unusual sentencing procedure for hate crimes, the justices appeared troubled by the state's law but also troubled by the broader implications of overturning it.

But Knight had also filed a petition for habeas corpus in federal court; and in December 1988, the Federal Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit found that Florida’s death penalty sentencing procedure was constitutionally defective because it did not require the jury to take account of an unusually traumatic and abusive childhood as a potentially mitigating factor.

"Only the most extravagant speculation would lead to the conclusion that the supposedly  prejudicial evidence renders the Carr brothers' joint sentencing procedure fundamentally unfair".

Further, the judges in the sentencing procedure would take into account such personal factors as prior contributions to the welfare of the country and the community, and so forth.