just sentence
lawful sentence

They believed, to be fair to them, that they had passed a just sentence.

And I thought, looking at him, I'd been a fool to hope he would suggest as a just sentence anything but her death.

He committed a crime, he received his just sentence for it."

A terrorist group said today that it would "hand down the just sentence to execute" a French hostage "within 48 hours."

A crime followed by a just sentence.

Pal believed that the Tokyo Trial was incapable of passing a just sentence.

But I should think twice before defying a just sentence from Zeus."

But I declare, we all declare together, that no death sentence is a just sentence.

- a righteous and just sentence!

They say the chances of a successful trial, the defendant's degree of culpability and achieving a just sentence weigh more heavily.

"He went on for minutes on end with just sentence fragments, and it was impossible to figure out what he was saying," said one diplomat.

The Chorus leader argues with Apollo over the just sentence Athena and her panel of judges are about to speak.

"I'm afraid the extreme right will exploit that finding, but the important thing was to see Maurice Papon found guilty and given a just sentence," she said.

His lawyer, Henry J. DePippo, said Judge Rakoff handed down a "just sentence."

The office's goals are to make the public aware, protect victims, take legal action against violators, establish necessary and just sentences for criminals, and train law enforcement individuals.

The only just sentence for her would have been imprisonment for life with no possibility of parole, thus making it impossible for her to benefit from her crimes.

Section 105A(1)(a) requires the written authority of the NDPP and agreement in respect of a plea of guilty and just sentence.

As to the meaning of "just sentence," it is not required that the court find that it is the exact sentence that it would have imposed.

Ali Hamza, a professor in the Shi'a town of Al Diwaniyah said, "Now all the victims' families will be happy because Saddam got his just sentence."

It is primarily a settling of old scores rather than any attempt at a just sentence; the whole process is an affront to the dignity and the rights of victims."

The Colombian chief prosecutor's office announced that it would appeal the judge's decision and do everything in its power to "obtain a just sentence, one proportional to the harm caused to society."

In terms of section 105A(9), if the court is not satisfied that the agreement is just, it informs the prosecutor and the accused of what it considers a just sentence.

The information you relayed to us in the aforementioned letter concerning the execution of the just sentence (death sentence) in the case of the criminal Jemal Ahmad Huma Khan has been confirmed.

The Revolutionary Justice Organization, a predominantly Shiite group, said on Saturday that it had put Mr. Normandin "on trial" and would "hand down the just sentence to execute him" within 48 hours.

Hard Labour was abolished in all Australian jurisdictions by 1988 and has not been a lawful sentence in that country for over thirty years.

Flogging is a lawful sentence under Shari'a law in Afghanistan for crimes such as adultery, which may be punished with 100 lashes of a whip.

Although the sentencer had exceeded his powers by passing a sentence of three years' detention in a young offender institution, the error was automatically corrected by this provision and a lawful sentence resulted.

Senator Pataki makes clear that if he is elected governor he will interpret the "temporary custody" agreement, which is embedded in New York's law, so loosely as to override New York's lawful sentence.

Cunningham holds that California's determinate sentencing law violates the sixth amendment, as understood in [Apprendi, Blakely and Booker], by granting the judge rather than the jury the power to find facts that raise the maximum lawful sentence.