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  2. Murder in Australian law - Wikipedia

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    Under NSW law, the maximum penalty for murder is life imprisonment, [11] with a standard non-parole period of 20 years, [12] or 25 years for the murder of a child under the age of 18. [12] In order to be found guilty of murder under the New South Wales Crimes Act 1900 , intent to cause grievous bodily harm or reckless indifference to human life ...

  3. Crimes Act 1900 - Wikipedia

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    After the death of Thomas Kelly in 2012, NSW Parliament introduced the "one-punch-law". This law mandates a minimum sentence of 8 years to the maximum sentence of 25 years for assault causing death in intoxicated (alcohol/drug) conditions. and maximum sentence of 20 years for assault causing death without intoxicated conditions.

  4. Life imprisonment in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Life imprisonment is the most severe criminal sentence available to the courts in Australia.Most cases attracting the sentence are murder.It is also imposed, albeit rarely, for sexual assault, manufacturing and trafficking commercial quantities of illicit drugs, and offences against the justice system and government security.

  5. Punishment in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Prisoners sew national and state flags and ambulance flags, and paint boomerangs. CSI said in 2017 that 84.9% of NSW inmates who can work, do so. In 2017, NSW prisoners were paid from $24.60 to $70.55 for a 30-hour work week. [103] [107] This is about $0.82 to $2.35 per hour, compared to the Australian minimum wage of $17.70 per hour. CSI made ...

  6. Criminal law of Australia - Wikipedia

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    The primary criminal statutes of NSW is the Crimes Act 1900. [9] Other statutes, such as the Summary Offences Act 1988, [10] also create criminal offences which are generally dealt with in the Local Court system. [11] Offences spelt out in the Drug Misuse and Trafficking Act 1985 (NSW) [12] cover all prohibited drugs.

  7. Capital punishment in Australia - Wikipedia

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    In 1973 the Death Penalty Abolition Act 1973 of the Commonwealth abolished the death penalty for federal offences. It provided in Section 3 that the Act applied to any offence against a law of the Commonwealth, the Territories or under an Imperial Act, and in s. 4 that "[a] person is not liable to the punishment of death for any offence".

  8. Influencer gets max sentence for trying to pay pal $60K to ...

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    Grayson was given the maximum sentence for murder-for-hire. @ itsashley_graysona/Instagram Grayson was found guilty of murder-for-hire and given the maximum sentence of 120 months in prison.

  9. Samuel Leonard Boyd - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Leonard Boyd is an Australian spree killer from New South Wales, currently serving four consecutive sentences of life imprisonment plus 25 years without the possibility of parole [1] for the murder of four people and the malicious wounding of a fifth between September 1982 and April 1983. Boyd emigrated from Scotland with his family at ...