Sentence examples for statutory punishments from inspiring English sources
Mr. Kerr, the former prosecutor, said the Justice Department had noted the maximum statutory punishments in news releases in part for their deterrent effect — to dissuade others from committing similar crimes — and not because they were realistic.
Moreover, California, which has moved toward a real-time sentencing system (where the statutory punishment approximates the time served), still punishes far less harshly those who have engaged in far more serious conduct.
Well over 200 years later, Emperor Justinian reinstituted the punishment with the four animals, and poena cullei remained the statutory penalty for parricides within Byzantine law for the next 400 years, when it was replaced with the punishment for parricides to be burnt alive instead.
On Wednesday, the Moroccan Parliament changed a law that had allowed men convicted of statutory rape to escape punishment by marrying their underage victims; the marriage loophole was removed.
An organization with 1,000 employees in which senior management condoned the violation or if "tolerance of the offense by substantial authority personnel was pervasive" can quickly see the recommended punishment increase up to the statutory maximum.
For years, lawmakers (and some voters) have reasoned that virtually no punishment was too severe for such criminals; even statutory limits on sentencing were often exceeded.
Most states authorized this punishment "only through the combination of two independent statutory provisions" — one allowing the transfer of juveniles to adult court, the other setting penalties (including mandatory life without parole) for everyone tried in adult court.
Both cases happened to be death penalty appeals, coming at a time of heightened public concern over the fairness of the way capital punishment is applied, but the court was interpreting statutory provisions that apply across the board and are not limited to the death penalty.
Five counts of statutory rape.
The lawsuit sought statutory damages.
