condemn
Her sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment.对她的判决由死刑减为无期徒刑。
As it was her first conviction for stealing, she was given a less severe sentence.
In some countries, drug-smuggling still carries the death sentence.在某些国家，贩毒仍要被判处死刑。
The judge made an example of him and gave him the maximum possible sentence.为了以儆效尤，法官在法律许可的范围内对他作出了最重的量刑。
He won his appeal and the sentence was halved.他上诉获胜，刑期减半。

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Examples of sentencing

sentencing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Should the case be solved, the amnesty (if appropriate) could only be applied at sentencing, not before.
The low sentencing rate in libel cases tells us nothing about the intense legal pressure thus brought to bear on the accused.
This was most obvious in debt suits involving conditional bonds, which had a high sentencing rate.
I believe that enhanced sentencing is pure preventive detention imposed under the guise of criminal punishment.
Sentencing policies cannot be drafted or implemented in a vacuum.
In sentencing there is no room for error, since errors affect human life.
But the retributive principle we are imagining is not concerned with what is clocked up on the sentencing aggregate.
Neither did analysis of court sentencing point conclusively to preferential treatment of women over men, though there were some indications of greater leniency.
From 1595 to 1627 a complete female/male sentencing reversal took place.
Most surveys show that people consistently underestimate the severity of sentencing.
During one period of intensive prosecution, from 1808 through 1812, the sentencing rate in libel cases was only 20 per cent.
Law's moral power may be realised through sentencing by developing the capacity for judicial discretionary decision-making to shape social reality.
The second is the sentencing, to which epistemological shortcomings are irrelevant.
That the university courts were concerned to limit the effects of a dispute is also evident in their sentencing practices.
There is no sentencing, no jail cell at the end of a long corridor waiting to swing shut with a deafening, metallic clang.
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