Definition & Meaning | English word SENTENCING

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Definitions of SENTENCING

1. Relating to a judicial sentence.
2. (uncountable) The act of pronouncing a judicial sentence on someone convicted of a crime.
3. (countable) That which has been pronounced as a judgement or sentence for a crime.
4. (colloquial) The act of creating one or more complete sentences from fragmented thoughts and phrases.
5. inflection of sentence

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Examples of Using SENTENCING in a Sentence

• 694 – At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
• These concessions can include a reduction in the severity of the charges, the dismissal of some charges, or a more lenient sentencing recommendation.
• Angelo persecutes a young man named Claudio for the crime of fornication, sentencing him to death on a technicality, only to fall madly in love with Claudio's sister, a chaste and innocent nun named Isabella, when she comes to plead for her brother's life.
• The Sentencing Project was part of a national coalition supporting the bipartisan Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act in the 114th Congress.
• He presided over the Haymarket Riot case in 1886, sentencing anarchists August Spies, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer, George Engel, and Louis Lingg to death, and sentencing Oscar Neebe to 15 years.
• In 1997, town supervisor Bill Jones was convicted of official misconduct and a gun charge, but vanished before his sentencing.
• Nineteen men who had been acquitted were returned to the court, and a new jury convicted them without any new evidence, sentencing them to death.
• Darrow's eight-hour summation at their sentencing hearing is noted for its influential criticism of capital punishment as retributive rather than transformative justice.
• If there is a full confession, and the defendant agrees to it, the trial may be held before a single professional judge who hears the case and determines sentencing.
• From March 1793 he served as the "public prosecutor" in Paris, demanding the execution of numerous accused individuals, including famous ones, like Marie-Antoinette, Danton or Robespierre and overseeing the sentencing of over two thousand of them to the guillotine.
• The amended issues included bail, sentencing reform, pleas for insanity, and penalties for drug offenses.
• It is a corrective to mandatory sentencing laws that greatly increased the incarceration rates in the United States.
• Goddard sentenced Bentley to be hanged, despite a recommendation for mercy by the jury: under the Judgment of Death Act 1823, the judge's discretion at sentencing was taken away and therefore no other sentence was possible.
• The state law allowing judges to reduce or revoke pensions of officials was passed in 2011, and this was its first use in sentencing.
• In January 2010, when sentencing a defendant, Shamso Miah, for assault, Blair announced that she would suspend his prison sentence after describing him as a "religious man".
• Malingering is the fabrication, feigning, or exaggeration of physical or psychological symptoms designed to achieve a desired outcome, such as personal gain, relief from duty or work, avoiding arrest, receiving medication, or mitigating prison sentencing.
• Sentencing guidelines in these three jurisdictions is often tiered, so that a person who is over the age of criminal responsibility (but not of full age), will receive more lenient treatment depending on how old said person is (so for example, punishment will differ between an offender who is under 12, under 14, or under 16, at the time of a given offence, for example, with harsher punishments being received the higher the age of the offender in question).
• There is no separate offence for a battery relating to domestic violence; however, the introduction of the crime of "controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or family relationship" in section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 has given rise to new sentencing guidelines that take into account significant aggravating factors such as abuse of trust, resulting in potentially longer sentences for acts of battery within the context of domestic violence.
• This was after the Sentencing Act 2002 and the Parole Act 2002 were passed – Acts for which Cartwright granted Royal Assent on 12 July 2002.
• However, if convicted of multiple murders, either of the first or second-degree, the sentencing judge previously had the discretion to make parole ineligibility periods consecutive - thereby extending parole ineligibility beyond 25 years and, in rare cases, beyond a normal life-span.

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