Sentence examples for severe sentences for from inspiring English sources

Late last week, Uganda's constitutional court struck down an anti-homosexuality act that mandates severe sentences for homosexual behavior.

His history included minimal sentences, early parole and community service in place of more severe sentences for earlier crimes.

-- While serving as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, Whitaker gained a reputation for seeking severe sentences for people accused of drug crimes.

On June 23 he increased the Met pay by a special £3,300 and attacked the courts for not delivering sufficiently severe sentences for robbery.

Vagrancy laws were used to crack down on those who visibly challenged longstanding social hierarchies while criminal convictions carried severe sentences for even the most trivial property crimes.

The threat of severe sentences for soliciting is defended on the ground that it will induce prostitutes to accept the guidance of a probation officer rather than go to prison.

In many cases, this act has led to excessively severe sentencing for the crime committed, according to the Sentencing Commission.

As the new legislative session begins this month, the priority should be to retain severe sentencing for major drug dealers while providing more alternatives to incarceration and more treatment options for low-level addicts and small-time dealers.

It just seems like a very, very severe sentence for somebody that was probably stupid more than anything else," Trump told the Wade and Roma.

While reducing some severe sentencing for nonviolent offenders has bipartisan support in both chambers, Goodlatte and Grassley have major differences over a policy known as "mens rea" reform, which has been promoted by billionaire Republican donors Charles and David Koch.

The robbery conviction earned Matavao his first strike under the "three strikes" law, which mandates more-severe sentences for repeat offenders, Talai said.