Examples of 'sentence was commuted' in a sentence

Meaning of "sentence was commuted"

{'sentence was commuted': 'When a sentence is commuted, it means that the severity or duration of the punishment or sentence has been reduced or changed. This usually occurs through a legal process or decision by a higher authority to lessen the penalty originally imposed.'},

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sentence was commuted
The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
Moved south when his sentence was commuted.
Her sentence was commuted to life at hard labor.
The rest of his sentence was commuted.
The sentence was commuted to life in prison.
The officer appealed and the sentence was commuted to a fine.
Her sentence was commuted to imprisonment in the palace.
Schwartz spent nine years in prison before his sentence was commuted.
Eventually their sentence was commuted to penal servitude.
Washington spent nine years on death row before his sentence was commuted.
The sentence was commuted on appeal to three years.
As a result of this and other campaigns his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
The sentence was commuted because of his age.
That evening the authorities decided to reprieve him and his sentence was commuted to transportation.
My sentence was commuted at the last minute.

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He was sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted to life in prison.
The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment on account of a physical disability.
The fact that his death sentence was commuted is a national disgrace.
Sentence was commuted.
At the last minute my sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
Her sentence was commuted by President Carter and she was later pardoned by President Clinton.
While she was sentenced to death, her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
The sentence was commuted and one food smuggler was hung.
At first condemned to death, his sentence was commuted to transportation for life.
Her sentence was commuted to life and she died in prison.
Annex 2 includes statistics on cases where the death sentence was commuted.
Eventually her sentence was commuted to seven years in prison.
He was convicted of violating the constitution, but his sentence was commuted to a small fine.
His sentence was commuted to life.
Stobo was sentenced to death, although his sentence was commuted to closed confinement.
This sentence was commuted to imprisonment.
First he was sentenced to death, later his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
His sentence was commuted to exile.
Following fierce international protests, the sentence was commuted to a four-year prison sentence.
His sentence was commuted and he died under house arrest.
After spending close to four years in prison, the remainder of his sentence was commuted.
The death sentence was commuted.
Well, he owned it, technically . Moved south when his sentence was commuted.
His death sentence was commuted.
His sentence was commuted into life imprisonment and later reduced by the communist regime.
He was found guilty, and sentenced to death, but that sentence was commuted to transportation.
His death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment after international pressure.
Soon, new charges were brought against him, and the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
The death sentence was commuted to a year in a penal colony for minors.
Their appeals are pending ; Saeed Sheikh 's sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
The sentence was commuted to imprisonment in an upstairs bedroom of ʻIolani Palace.
Christine Papin was condemned to death . Her sentence was commuted to life at hard labor.
His sentence was commuted to life by President Truman.
Sentenced to a year in prison, his sentence was commuted by President René Coty.
The sentence was commuted by the intervention of Adolf Hitler.

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