Sentence examples for sentencing system from inspiring English sources

Pennsylvania's capital sentencing system is "error prone, expensive, and anything but infallible," says Mr Wolf.

The sentencing system should be reformed radically to deal more fairly with female offending.

The commission's preliminary report contains many valuable recommendations for fixing the sentencing system as a whole.

Critics of the federal sentencing system have a long list of complaints.

In the process, he ignored important social policies that underpin our sentencing system.

Toward a Just and Effective Sentencing System: Agenda for Legislative Reform (with Pierce O'Donnell and Michael Churgin).

The decisions today were important because the federal and state sentencing systems increasingly rely on an offender's criminal history.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, about 2,500 inmates are serving life sentences for crimes committed when they were juveniles, including more than 2,000 — 80 percent — through the kind of mandatory sentencing systems barred on Monday by the court.

The Supreme Court upheld Alabama's capital-sentencing system in 1995.

Hurst also brought the case to the U.S. Supreme Court that ended with the justices striking down Florida's death-sentencing system in January.

In 2014, Iowa became the first state to replace a flat 25-year prison sentence for exposing others to HIV with a tiered-sentencing system that takes low-risk and no-risk behavior into account.