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  2. Criminal sentencing in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Generally speaking, each victim of a murder will merit a separate charge of murder against the offender, and as such, the killer could get a life sentence, a death sentence, or some other determinate or indeterminate sentence based upon the number of murders, the evidence presented, and any aggravating or mitigating circumstances present.

  3. Community sentence - Wikipedia

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    Community sentence [1] [2] or alternative sentencing or non-custodial sentence is a collective name in criminal justice for all the different ways in which courts can punish a defendant who has been convicted of committing an offense, other than through a custodial sentence (serving a jail or prison term) or capital punishment (death).

  4. Back-to-back life sentences - Wikipedia

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    In judicial practice, back-to-back life sentences, also called consecutive life sentences, [1] [2] are two or more consecutive life sentences given to a convicted felon. This practice is used to ensure the felon will never be released from prison. This is a common punishment for a defendant convicted of multiple murders in the United

  5. Three-strikes law - Wikipedia

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    The study's author argues that this is so because under such laws, felons realize that they could face a long jail sentence for their next crime regardless of type, and therefore they have little to lose by committing serious crimes rather than minor offenses. Through these findings, the study weighs both the pros and cons for the law. [42]

  6. List of people sentenced to more than one life imprisonment

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    88 concurrent life sentences with parole possible in 40 years United Kingdom: Indonesian-born Manchester resident who was convicted of 136 rapes from 2015 to 2017 of at least 48 drugged victims, a number that according to British Police is most likely much higher. [3] Also the longest officially confirmed sentence ever handed outside the U.S.

  7. Sentence (law) - Wikipedia

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    A sentence may consist of imprisonment, a fine, or other sanctions. Sentences for multiple crimes may be a concurrent sentence, where sentences of imprisonment are all served together at the same time, or a consecutive sentence, in which the period of imprisonment is the sum of all sentences served one after the other. [2]

  8. The pros and cons of making advanced chips in America - AOL

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    Positron is also working on sourcing more components and materials in North America, or at least outside China and Taiwan. Sourcing from Mexico, for example, offers greater safety from ...

  9. Criminal law of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Infidelity in such situations qualifies. Legally adequate provocation must go beyond insulting words to events, situations and circumstances that surprise the defendant and trigger the loss of reason without time to consider consequences or weigh pros and cons. Involuntary manslaughter is an unintentional killing. The law requires proof of some ...