( The penalties handed out in the electrical case, which included jail sentences, were unprecedented in anti-trust prosecutions, perhaps because the conspirators had displayed unusual ineptness in their pricing activities.

Nevertheless, Phillip believed in discipline, and floggings and hangings were commonplace, although Philip commuted many death sentences.

The whaling industry was established, ships were visiting Sydney to trade, and convicts whose sentences had expired were taking up farming.

In the end after three days of riots 1, 139 looms were destroyed, 4 rioters and 2 bystanders shot dead by the authorities in Rossendale and 41 rioters sentenced to death ( all of whose sentences were commuted ).

The leadership was tried before a kangaroo court and convicted on false charges unrelated to Sarajevo, such as plotting an assassinations of Nikola Pašić and Crown prince Aleksandar ; many were given death sentences.

In 2005, several members of the CIRA, who were serving prison sentences in Portlaoise Prison for paramilitary activity, left the organisation.

They were released with ten-year suspended sentences, having served 18 years and 78 days in prison.

Fifteen of those ( including all seven signatories of the Proclamation ) had their sentences confirmed by Maxwell and were executed by firing squad between 3 and 12 May ( among them the seriously-wounded Connolly, shot while tied to a chair due to a shattered ankle ).

On 29 April 2008, two teens Ryan Herbert and Brendan Harris were convicted for the murder of Lancaster and given life sentences, three others were given lesser sentences for the assault on her boyfriend Robert Maltby.

About half of political prisoners in the Gulag camps were imprisoned without trial ; official data suggest that there were over 2. 6 million sentences to imprisonment on cases investigated by the secret police throughout 1921-1953.

According to Anne Applebaum, approximately 6000 katorga convicts were serving sentences in 1906 and 28, 600 in 1916.

Eventually persistent opponents of the regime, many of the leftist persuasion, were subjected to long staged trials and harsh sentences, or detained in camps for political prisoners.

* July 25, 1947 The Sergeants affair: When death sentences were passed on two Irgun members, the Irgun kidnapped Sgt.

Mervyn Paice and threatened to kill them in retaliation if the sentences were carried out.

Their sentences were supposed to be simple interpretations of the traditional customs, but effectively it was an activity that, apart from formally reconsidering for each case what precisely was traditionally in the legal habits, soon turned also to a more equitable interpretation, coherently adapting the law to the newer social instances.

He imposed heavy sentences on those who were convicted ; some of the convictions were reversed on appeal, and other sentences were commuted.

Since the time of Pāṇini, at least, linguists have described the grammars of languages in terms of their block structure, and described how sentences are recursively built up from smaller phrases, and eventually individual words or word elements.

Martin Bryant, a 28-year-old from New Town, a suburb of Hobart, eventually pleaded guilty to the crimes and was given 35 life sentences without possibility of parole.

In January 1950, he was found guilty on both counts of perjury and received two concurrent five-year sentences, of which he eventually served three and a half years.

Existing death row inmates, who numbered in the thousands, were eventually given life sentences or reclusion perpetua instead.

Most of the gang were eventually caught and, in February 1979, received the longest combined prison sentences in United Kingdom legal history.

Barris ' jokey, bumbling personality ; his accentuated hand-clapping between sentences ( which eventually had the studio audience joining in with him ); and his catchphrases ( he would usually go into commercial break with, " We'll be right back with more er ... STUFF ...", occasionally paired with shifting his head to reveal the ubiquitous sign behind the stage reading simply " STUFF ," and " This is me saying ' bye '" was one of his favorite closing lines ) were the antithesis of the smooth TV host ( such as Gary Owens, who hosted the syndicated version in its first season ).

Although the brothers were eventually convicted and given consecutive life sentences, many legal experts were outraged by the mistrials.

The soldiers were eventually tried, and two were convicted of manslaughter, although their sentences were reduced.

Many states now permit sentences of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole ( such as for murder and espionage ), and any prisoner not sentenced to either this or the death penalty will eventually have the right to petition for release ( one stateAlaskamaintains neither the death penalty nor life imprisonment without parole as sentencing options ).

Seven bodies were eventually found, and Puente was charged with a total of nine murders, convicted of three and sentenced to two life sentences.

Malcolm Fairley was eventually sentenced to six life sentences for the attacks plus a further 26 years in prison for related offences.

The sentences of O ' Brien and other members of the Irish Confederation were eventually commuted to transportation for life to Van Diemen's Land.

Both men were eventually found guilty at trial of conspiring to manufacture, distribute and dispense ten grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of lysergic acid diethylamide ( LSD ); Pickard received two life sentences, while Apperson received 30 years imprisonment.

Hanson was eventually convicted of Monckton's murder and sentenced to serve three life sentences for killing Monckton, and the attempted murder of Monckton's wife Homeyra, in November 2004.

After a nationwide petitioning campaign and, extraordinarily, direct lobbying of the Home Secretary by the Lord Chief Justice, Viscount Melbourne, the government eventually commuted the sentences of each to transportation for life.

This suggests that there is a vocabulary spurt between the time the child's first word appear, and when the child is able to form more than two words, and eventually, sentences.

They were eventually convicted of drug charges and sentenced to two different prisons to serve their sentences.

Galley-slaves lived in unsavoury conditions, so even though some sentences prescribed a restricted number of years, most rowers would eventually die, even if they survived the conditions, shipwreck and slaughter or torture at the hands of enemies or of pirates.

Gayoom commuted the death sentences passed against them to life imprisonment.

Sikka Maniku and Luthufee were sentenced to death in 1989, but Gayoom commuted their sentences to life imprisonment.

* 1849 – A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group ; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.

The sentences are later commuted to life imprisonment.

The death sentences were later automatically commuted to life in prison after the California Supreme Court's People v. Anderson decision resulted in the invalidation of all death sentences imposed in California before 1972., Manson, Watson, Krenwinkel, and Van Houten remain incarcerated.

The sentences were later commuted to transportation to Van Diemen's Land.

Jiang Qing and Zhang Chunqiao received death sentences that were later commuted to life imprisonment, while Wang Hongwen and Yao Wenyuan were given life and twenty years in prison, respectively.

During his first term in office, Dukakis commuted the sentences of 21 first-degree murderers and those of 23 second-degree murderers.

The last death sentences were given in 1945 for murder, but later commuted to life imprisonment.

Their sentences were commuted by Governor Edmund J. Davis at the request of a group of Quakers, and they were later paroled.

Former border patrol agents Ramos and Compean had their sentences commuted by President George W. Bush during his last full day in office on January 19, 2009, although they did not receive a pardon for their convictions.

Through the intervention of Rougon, who doesn't want a brother in jail, their sentences are commuted and they are forced to leave France.

Twenty-three of his most senior aides also received death sentences that were commuted on 1 June 2011.

Ferreira and four companions were tried for murder and convicted, ( February 1907 ), the death sentences being commuted to terms of penal servitude.

In March 1919 President Wilson, at the suggestion of Attorney General Thomas Watt Gregory pardoned or commuted the sentences of some 200 prisoners convicted under the Espionage Act or the Sedition Act.

Both Berrenger and Sefton has been sentenced to death in Britain but had their sentences commuted to transportation to NSW.

Facing this, he declared that a chariot race would be held on January 13 and commuted the sentences to imprisonment.

Five persons were sentenced to death ( for murder ) on the Isle of Man between 1973 and 1992, although all sentences were commuted to life imprisonment.

On at least two occasions, state governors — George Ryan of Illinois and Toney Anaya of New Mexico — have commuted all death sentences in their respective states prior to leaving office.