Sentence examples for would have sentenced from inspiring English sources

Jurors in his case say they would have sentenced him to life without parole if they had that option.

Had his hands not been tied, Judge Gleeson wrote, "there is no way I would have sentenced" Mr. Dossie to so long a sentence.

Because of the "vicious" and "exceedingly cold-hearted" murder and attempted murder he committed, the jury would have sentenced him to death.

But he and his lawyers rejected a plea agreement with the Justice Department that essentially would have sentenced him to up to six months behind bars — and away from the two small children he had with his late wife, Elizabeth.

"If I had not imposed the death sentence, I would have sentenced three black people to death and no white people," he said at a sentencing hearing in 2000.

"I probably would have sentenced him to less if I could have," James P. Griffin, the acting justice of the State Supreme Court in Queens who presided over Mr. Nkemakolam's jury trial, said in an interview on Friday.

In 2000, a judge ordering the death of a white defendant noted that if he hadn't overridden the jury he'd have "sentenced three black people to death and no white people".

And Erdogan said last month that he would consider dismissing cases against journalists accused of crimes that would have sentences of less than five years.

Had such evaluations been available to the defense at the trial, they said, the jury would not have sentenced Mr. Harris to death.

"Would our courts have sentenced to death three innocent people a year, year in year out?

Had the jury not found aggravating factors, Holmes would have been sentenced to life in prison.