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concurrent sentence

concurrent sentence see sentence

Definitive Sentence

Definitive Sentence, the final judgment of a spiritual Court, in opposition to

Death penalty

the murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act, 1965 and a sentence of life imprisonment substituted, Dictionary of Law, L.B. Curzon, 4th

convict

n-vikt] n : a person convicted of and serving a sentence for a crime

Capital punishment

where see the Rules of 1888 under the Act. See SENTENCE OF DEATH. The mode in the United Kingdom is hanging,

judgment of conviction

of the plea, the verdict or findings, the adjudication, and the sentence. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 847

Court has power to award a sentence of penal servitude, the sentence may, at the discretion of the Court, be for any … that the former is not, and generally speaking cannot be, imposed for more than two years, whereas penal servitude may be

Murder

1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100), s. 1. See SENTENCE OF DEATH. The execution, formerly public, has taken place in … reasons given by the Courts in number of cases for imposing death penalty is that the murder is 'brutal', 'cold-blooded', 'deliberate',

Criminal Appeal Act, 1907 (English)

and (c) with theleave of the Courtof Criminal Appeal against the sentence passed on his conviction, unless the sentence is one fixed

Reprieve

from reprendre, to keep back, and signifies the withdrawing of the sentence for an interval of time, and operates in delay of

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