In the last decade, there's been a lot more public dialogue about the efficacy and morality of the death penalty. And that has made it easier for governors, when appropriate, to decide to commute a sentence.
Mark Lubbers
We will ask that he serve the 10 to life and the five to 18 after that sentence. And then he would be eligible for parole. We wanted to have the additional time added to the sentence he already served.
Scott Smith
What makes it easy is he's happy at Rutgers. It's not like he has a death sentence if he doesn't go to the NBA this year.
Jack Ringel
It was simply an outrageous sentence.
Jonathan Marks
Bearing in mind your good character ... I am not imposing any custodial sentence.
Timothy Workman
It's sad. Some kids you just have to wash your hands of. There's nothing you can do and the judges sentence them to 93 days in jail for paraphernalia possession. I don't know what else can be done. These kids need to be scared into not doing heroin, but how?
Jerry Tarchala
It's not like Big Brother; it's a sentence that's trying to do the right thing, the appropriate thing, to guarantee the community's safety, ... It's not going to be in their car forever, but it's going to be there to demonstrate that they've learned to drive appropriately.
Brian Mackenzie
Twenty-two hours a day in that cell -- a life sentence -- is probably going to punish him more.
Brack Jones
Or a very short sentence in a halfway house.
Peter Henning
[New medicines mean HIV is no longer a death sentence in Canada.] It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease, ... It means being wedded to the health system.
Phil Berger
We have decided that this offence is too serious for a community sentence. You will be sent to a young offenders' institution for six months.
Ronnie Barker
I can't really say one way or another. Like I said, I just want to move on with my life. So if it's a conditional sentence, that actually might work better for me because there are more restrictions placed that way.
Cari Benson
The district attorney wants to throw the book at them with a sentence that tops out at nine years. The defense is holding out for one to six.
Ivan Golde
There was a time when the crime itself determined the sentence. It used to be if someone is convicted of premeditated murder, the state said the punishment was death, ... That is no longer the case.
Leonard Sand
And you're poor in this country, it's not an inconvenience. It's a death sentence.
Charlie Rangel
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.
Gloria Naylor
It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years.
Albert Wynn
Joe DiMaggio is such an icon, he's almost like a cartoon character, ... I have so much respect for him. When it's all said and done, it's something you can look back on and say that you're proud to be mentioned in the same sentence as Joe.
Alex Rodriguez
For 25 years, Michael Morales has acknowledged his crime. For 25 years, he's shown regret and remorse. We're not asking for a pardon. We're asking that his sentence be commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
David Senior
He was concerned that without a judge playing an active role, a defendant might plead guilty to something substantially more or less than he was really guilty of in return for a lesser sentence.
Kate Stith
What does he have to lose? If I'm going to jail for the maximum sentence, I can laugh and smirk and do whatever. You're still going to give me the same 200 years.
Donald Harrison
He simply could have said, `Yes, I could have sentenced or upheld a judge's sentence to put Hitler to death.' Instead he said it was up to God to decide.
Eric Cantor
It is not a death sentence. The fatalistic view we often find is so wrong. If you don't have funds to pay for a mammogram, they, you have no excuse not to get one.
Elmeria Teffeteller
Irving had expected certain strictness by the court because he was a very well known case. But the sentence was too harsh. It became a bit of a (political) message trial and the message was too strong.
Elmar Kresbach
By this verdict, the jury has found that death is a possible sentence in this case.
Fred Adams
When you mention Nancy Wittenberg in one sentence and environmental regulation in another, my eyebrows immediately raise up.
Eric Stiles
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