unjust sentence

And unjust sentences are reversed by the higher courts.

In keeping with its past rulings, the court should overturn this unjust sentence.

"We ask that the unjust sentence issued against Normandin be stopped forthwith," he said.

The report claimed that there was evidence of the "generalized use of torture and unjust sentences".

Meanwhile Germanicus sat on the tribunal and heard appeals from the provincials against unjust sentences in the courts.

"I have a cause: to vacate the unjust sentence of my husband," Mrs Pollard said yesterday.

The articles revealed irresponsible operation of the judiciary and highlighted what Jannuzzi called wrong and unjust sentences.

In one respect,' he said, 'he suffered justly; and that was because he had permitted an unjust sentence to be executed on another.'

Even if he somehow escaped this giant monster, he would be doomed in the unforgiving Arrakis wasteland because of his unjust sentence.

Johns was determined not to serve what he felt was an unjust sentence, and in early November he and another prisoner absconded from a work party.

"This court is mindful and sensitive to the wishes of the various people of Co-op City who felt that this was an unjust sentence," he said in court.

In 1999, the Belarusian Helsinki Committee appealed to the General Prosecutor's Office to annul an unjust sentence against both Hienijušs.

"The political nature of the charges gave way to disproportionate and unjust sentences - placing conditions on them now is a continuation of the injustices that began almost two decades ago," she said.

They maintain, however, that unjust sentences are rare, note that the governor can always grant clemency to correct injustice, and contend that the strict drug laws have helped reduce crime.

According to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) "This is clearly an unfair and unjust sentence which adds to the anxiety of our colleagues and their families.

The King did not take his advice, but clearly afterwards regretted not doing so, as shown by his reference on the scaffold to Strafford's unjust sentence which I suffered to take effect.

James ordered him to be executed, on his old shamefully unjust sentence, within three days; and he appears to have been anxious that his legs should have been pounded with his old favourite the boot.

A petition will be drawn up requesting that the court's judgment be reconsidered, but I do not get the impression that efforts within Russia will be enough to get this flagrantly unjust sentence revised.

Tormented by European snickering, bored with his aperitifs, left to commiserate over marc de Bourgogne . . . one can only hope that the State Legislature acts soon to ease his unjust sentence.

According to myth, Icarus' father Daedalus, under an unjust sentence of death by King Minos of Crete, created wings of feather and wax with which he and his son could fly to freedom.

When Charles I was executed eight years later, amongst his last words were that God had permitted his execution as punishment for his consenting to Strafford's death: "that unjust sentence which I suffered to take effect".

As the Civil War approached, a William Poe petitioned Parliament in May 1642 as a distressed prisoner against an unjust sentence of the Star Chamber following a suit against him taken by Sir Edward.

For example, his efforts (in vain) to intervene with King Ferdinand VII in the case of Mariana Pineda to save her from the gallows (were) recognized even by foreign authors who had harshly criticized that unjust sentence.

Anyone, and especially a clever rhetorician, will have a good deal to urge about the evil of setting aside the law which requires a sentence to be carried out; and we might reply, "Yes; but the State has injured us and given an unjust sentence."

Strick says he is "over the moon" that Ulysses has finally been passed, but is scathing of the censor's office: "That is like saying that a prisoner could have been released from an unjust sentence if they'd only had the courtesy to ask to be let out of the hoosegow.