At this time, sentence structures were being gradually modified, but many remained untidy.
He received six months of county jail time (sentence suspended) and a year's suspension of his right to drive.
Alabama again tried and convicted another of the group, Haywood Patterson, this time sentencing him to 75 years in prison.
Fahmy and Mohamed instead faced a retrial, where once again they were found guilty, this time sentenced to three years.
The Mad Hatter sings of being "arrested by time, sentenced by time, tortured by time" over dense chords that sway in pendulum rhythm, as in the doom-laced Coronation Scene of Moussorgsky's "Boris Godunov".
Consequently, he was again arrested, this time sentenced to a particularly harsh 11 years in prison for "inciting subversion of state power" — even though China is a signatory of the U.N. declaration.
Burdine eventually won a new trial, at which he was again convicted, but this time sentenced to life in prison — a veritable candy store, it was said, for a "pervert" like him.
A group convened by the civil-rights leader A. Philip Randolph urged that "a life time sentence without parole be made the punishment to meet the crime of pushing narcotics".
By the time sentencing was completed in April 1945, the courts had tried 11,122 people, of whom 2,730 were condemned to death, 1,305 to life imprisonment, and 5,119 to terms of up to 20 years.
