sentencing
Speech parts
1. sentencing - Noun
2. sentencing - Adjective
3. sentencing - Verb
Meaning
of Sentence
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Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!
The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.
You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime.
I called him because it made me so damned angry to think of that bastard sentencing a citizen for four months of hard labor for a minor traffic offense and screwing up my brother's campaign and making our country look ridiculous before the world.
You pay a price when you have an objective sentencing system. That is, nothing is perfect.
Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.