Deterrence - Judgment Search Results

Baze Vs. Rees

Court: US Supreme Court

..... punishment in fact deters potential offenders footnote 13 in the absence of such evidence deterrence cannot serve as a sufficient penological justification for this uniquely severe and irrevocable punishment ..... the significant body of recent evidence that capital punishment may well have a deterrent effect possibly a quite powerful one sunstein vermeule is capital punishment morally required acts .....

Kennedy Vs. Louisiana

Court: US Supreme Court

..... assume safely that there are murderers for whom the death penalty undoubtedly is a significant deterrent id at 186 the value of capital punishment and its contribution to acceptable penological goals ..... a marginal increase in the incentive to kill this is counterbalanced by a marginally increased deterrent to commit the crime at all whatever balance the legislature strikes however uncertainty on the .....

Exxon Shipping Co. Vs. Baker

Court: US Supreme Court

..... and juries refining their judgments to reach a generally accepted optimal level of penalty and deterrence in cases involving a wide range of circumstances while producing fairly consistent results in ..... for the sentence imposed to provide just punishment for the offense and to afford adequate deterrence to criminal conduct united states sentencing commission guidelines manual 1a1 1 comment nov 2007 .....

State of Gujarat Vs. Hiteshkumar Madhusudan Adhvaryu

Court: Gujarat

Reported in: (2009)1GLR498

..... so we have sought to objectify to the extent possible abandoning retributive ruthlessness amending the deterrent creed and accepting the trend against the extreme and irrevocable penalty of putting out life ..... sentence in operating the sentencing system law has to adopt the corrective machinery or the deterrence based on factual matrix by deft modulation of sentencing process be stern where it should .....

Godfrey Philips India Ltd. Vs. State of M.P. and ors.

Court: Madhya Pradesh

Reported in: (2008)17VST465(MP)

..... imposed as a charge for the facilities provided and is not deterrent to the trade then it remains in the realm of ..... the working test inasmuch as they do not create prohibition or deterrence or restrictions but the amount collected as entry tax is spent ..... tax or toll to an amount which would be prohibitive or deterrent or create other impediments which instead of facilitating trade and commerce .....

Shivaji @ Dadya Shankar Alhat Vs. the State of Maharashtra

Court: Supreme Court of India

Reported in: AIR2009SC56; 2008(12)SCALE210; (2008)15SCC269

..... 039 therefore in operating the sentencing system law should adopt the corrective machinery or the deterrence based on factual matrix by deft modulation sentencing process be stern where it should be ..... will lose faith in courts in such cases he understands and appreciates the language of deterrence more than the reformative jargon 26 therefore undue sympathy to impose inadequate sentence would do .....

Mohan Anna Chavan Vs. State of Maharashtra

Court: Supreme Court of India

Reported in: JT2008(7)SC51; (2008)7SCC561

..... 039 therefore in operating the sentencing system law should adopt the corrective machinery or the deterrence based on factual matrix by deft modulation sentencing process be stern where it should be ..... will lose faith in courts in such cases he understands and appreciates the language of deterrence more than the reformative jargon 20 therefore undue sympathy to impose inadequate sentence would do .....

State of Maharashtra Vs. Haresh Mohandas Rajput

Court: Mumbai

Reported in: (2008)110BOMLR373

..... also that like offences should receive similar punishments an increasingly important aspect of punishment is deterrence and sentences are aimed at deterring not only the actual offender from further offences ..... this particular aim is varied and rehabilitation will not usually be accorded precedence over deterrence the main aim of punishment in judicial thought however is still the protection of .....

R (on the Application of Wellington) (Fc) (Appellant) Vs. Secretary of ...

Court: House of Lords

..... sentence if imposed to reflect the requirements of punishment and deterrence for a particularly heinous crime was not in potential conflict ..... the prisoner was necessary for the purposes of retribution and deterrence or for protecting the public from risk of serious harm ..... justified on any ground 8212 whether for reasons of punishment deterrence or public protection it is for that reason that the .....

State of Punjab Vs. Rakesh Kumar

Court: Supreme Court of India

Reported in: 2009CriLJ396; 2008(12)SCALE95; 2008AIRSCW7444; 2008(4)Crimes55; 2008(5)LH(SC)3631

..... society therefore in operating the sentencing system law should adopt the corrective machinery or the deterrence based on factual matrix by deft modulation sentencing process be stern where it should be ..... will lose faith in courts in such cases he understands and appreciates the language of deterrence more than the reformative jargon 9 therefore undue sympathy to impose inadequate sentence would do .....