Sentence examples for terrible sentencing from inspiring English sources

Professor Zimring is right; good sounding politics often produces terrible sentencing policy.

But for a few, it is a terrible sentence of relentless pain.

"This is a terrible sentence," Judge Blue said, "but it is in truth a sentence you wrote for yourself in flames".

After she dropped dead in her Paris apartment four years later, Walter Legge summed up the waste in one terrible sentence: "I doubt if she had expected to die so soon, or that she really minded".

They said I was doing the right thing, that when my son came back they would try to help, but this terrible sentence – all they have done was to set me against my son".

"Wasn't there a sentence in there somewhere that we don't have now," Simon asked Mills outside, "where he says — and this is a terrible sentence, but — 'I went over to the house, and I was hoping there would be a message there or something'?

** This may be the most grandly terrible sentence in the English language, and it's Clyde's ambivalence, and possibly Dreiser's, too — the thought of God's existence struggling against disbelief — that churns the clauses the way a propeller churns the water.

Presiding Judge Jon Blue formally imposed six death sentences, one for each of the capital charges Hayes was convicted of; Blue then added a sentence of 106 years for other crimes Hayes committed during the home invasion, including kidnapping, burglary, and assault, before finishing with, "This is a terrible sentence, but is, in truth, a sentence you wrote for yourself in flames.

It's not a terrible sentence, but it doesn't flow well from the preceding ones because it lay out a strict, rigid structure where none is needed.

Those two sentences free you to forgive yourself and understand that you are not the same person you may have been at a terrible time in your life.

I also agree that Florida's mandatory minimum law, which was enacted in 1999, is a terrible system for sentencing offenders.