In the case of premeditated killing, life imprisonment is the appropriate sentence if a sentence of death is not imposed.

在预谋杀人罪中，如果不用死刑的话，判以无期徒刑是非常合适的量刑。

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Legal experts independent of the case weighed in after the death sentence was handed down.

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In that event, the result of failing to fight the Islamists in this case may prove to be not just a death sentence for Rifqa Bary.

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It has also been quietly mooted that Turkey's parliament might decide to keep the Ocalan case off its agenda, so that along with some 40 other Turks under sentence of death Mr Ocalan would simply linger on death row with no immediate prospect of his sentence being carried out.

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