Once again, a jury, this time one composed of men and women in uniform, sentenced him to death.
NEW DELHI -- The runner-up in Sri Lanka's last presidential election, the retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka, was convicted in a court-martial of politicking while still in uniform and sentenced to a dishonorable discharge, the authorities said Friday.
They're put in prisonlike uniforms and sentenced, sometimes for life, to work long hours in hot laundries without speaking and forced to strip naked and stand in line while the nuns ridicule their breasts and genitals.
In its place (but as it turned out, only in theory) was uniform determinate sentencing, which would avoid the follies of unachievable rehabilitative goals and ensure both incapacitation and even-handed justice for all offenders.
His lawyers asked for a minimum sentence because of his service record and psychological problems, but the judge saying, "I don't expect that type of behavior from you, in fact, it brings considerable discredit upon the uniform that you wore" sentenced him to 52 years in prison.
It observed the fact that Shaikh is the first European to be executed in China in 50 years is highly emotive and sensational: "But viewed in context, the uniform application of sentencing standards for both the Chinese and foreigners underscores the progress of China's legal system, which is steadily building the principle of rule of law".
Morsi was overthrown soon after and replaced by a general sans uniform, and a court system that sentenced 683 supporters of the former regime to death. .
That blue suit, A mad, execution uniform, Survived your sentence.
Bite-sized conservative policies balanced the bite-sized liberal ones: his support for school uniforms and tough sentencing laws, for example.
