Sentence examples for years hard labour from inspiring English sources

In May, he was sentenced to 15 years' hard labour.

Generally about two to four years' hard labour.

Their sentence was 14 years' hard labour: one intended, said the judge, to scare others.

The culmination of 12 years' hard labour standing behind the stumps.

Wilde is arrested for sodomy and gross indecency, tried, and sentenced to two years' hard labour.

In 1895 he was sentenced to two years' hard labour for homosexuality.

He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1935 and sentenced to 10 years' hard labour for "preparing treason".

Wilde was sentenced to two years' hard labour, hardly sufficient, according to the judge, given the seriousness of his crime.

American student Otto Warmbier has been sentenced to 15 years' hard labour for "severe crimes" against the North Korean state.

The move follows international protests over the sentencing last week of two gay men in Malawi to 14 years' hard labour.

By then Mr Carter had left with an American, Aijalon Gomes, who had been serving eight years' hard labour for entering the country illegally in January.