As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.
I am here wrongfully convicted and wrongfully sentenced.
It's over. We've all been sentenced to die.
I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not religiously and conscientiously accept killing my fellow man.
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
A Pennsylvania woman convicted for shoplifting was sentenced to wear a badge that reads "Convicted Shoplifter. " However, her lawyers hope to plea bargain down to a bumper sticker reading "I'd Rather Be Stealing!.
Appeal can't happen until I've been sentenced.
If you look at sentencing in America, African-Americans and Latinos get sentenced for the same crimes at very different rates.
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.
Former U. S. House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, has been sentenced to three years in prison. One year for money laundering and two more for his performance on 'Dancing with the Stars. '
