The prosecution is, in turn, asking for the sentence to be increased to 11 years.
For far too many, being born a girl remains a lifelong sentence to inequality and injustice.
The pair had an opportunity between conviction and sentence to speak to the police.
It nonetheless hastily convened a mercy commission, which commuted the sentence to life imprisonment.
Eddie Slovik, went through the process from confession to court-martial to sentence to execution by firing squad.
Conservative Richard Graham is leading a campaign to increase the maximum sentence to up to 14 years.
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Prosecutors increased their recommended sentence to 20 years, saying they had uncovered new facts about the case.
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Mr ap Mihangel applied for the sentence to be adjourned for a pre-sentence report to be prepared.
Liam Lawlor will go to jail on Wednesday unless he appeals the sentence to the Supreme Court.
And when he heard his sentence to death by hanging, he shouted at the judge, we're not criminals.
It said it had received a request from a member of the public for the sentence to be reviewed.
Last month judges ordered Dutt to surrender by 18 April after reducing his sentence to five years from six.
They had, maybe at most, 20 months left of their sentence to serve.
The death sentence was confirmed on Wednesday for Ali al-Taweel, and the sentence to life imprisonment for Ali Shamlo.
They recommend what sentence to give for which crime, based on previous cases.
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India's Supreme Court has rejected a petition by a death row prisoner to commute his sentence to life in jail.
Appeal judges, who heard Nightingale had forgotten he had the gun, cut his sentence to 12 months and suspended it.
He has the power to reduce the sentence to life in prison, although such reductions of jury-imposed sentences are rare.
Lady Paton, who heard the appeal with Lord Mackay, said they would reduce McNeill's prison sentence to a 12-year term.
Innocent defendants may plead guilty in return for a shorter sentence to avoid the risk of a much longer one.
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is understood to have written to Governor Perry asking for Elliott's sentence to be commuted to life.
The bloggers' network since then has organized rallies demanding the tribunal give the maximum death sentence to all those found guilty.
District Judge Ashworth said he would limit the maximum sentence to a community-based penalty and granted Gill-Web conditional bail until the sentencing.
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Last year, Mr. Singh filed a fresh appeal for clemency before Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, who commuted his sentence to life imprisonment.
Judges at London's Court of Appeal agreed with Dominic Grieve the sentence had been "unduly lenient" and raised Khosravi's sentence to 11 years.
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In order to get a jail sentence to stick, prosecutors must prove the individual has made plans to carry out such a threat.
We know there's been some support from a few members of Congress for the idea of commuting his sentence to time served, 27 years.
While the authors of the paper acknowledged some of the limitations of their study, they devoted only one sentence to the limitations of BMI.
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One sensible measure might be to require every sex offender serving a jail sentence to attend a treatment programme as a condition of release.
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Everyone here knows Zhu Demei's father and 1, 000 people have signed a petition urging the authorities to commute his death sentence to a prison term.
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