Sentencing

I'd have given them the maximum.

Thailand did not report the number of death sentences imposed, but it did report the number of executions that had been carried out 43.

The court must mete out more drastic punishment

The appeal thus covered only the issue of sentence, which was reduced from six to two years.

14. In considering the sentences for these different offenders, the principle that the sanction must be commensurate with the seriousness of the crime should be emphasized.

But there's a suspect in Hamburg, whose neck is already in the noose.

When meting out the punishment it must be considered an aggravating circumstance whether the activity is in the nature of propaganda activities.

a Rates calculated on the basis of the average annual number of executions.

This provides a clear indication of the fairness and lawfulness of their trial and of the sentences handed down against them.

19. Recalls that all acts of enforced disappearance are offences punishable by appropriate penalties which take into account their extreme seriousness under criminal law

52. It is said that the revised Criminal Law has reduced the number of offences punishable by prison terms, thereby leading to a reduction in the inmate population.

According to its article 228, criminal responsibility is engaged only in the event of the illegal purchase and storage of drugs in large or very large amounts, and, in the author's opinion, the possession of small amounts of drugs was thus decriminalized.

In addition, ICPO Interpol reported that a significant but unknown quantity of LSD was seized in the Russian Federation.

The degree of civilization of a country could be measured by its attitude towards the death penalty.

Article 332 2 The offence defined in the preceding article shall be punished by the maximum prison sentence without those found guilty of it being allowed to plead extenuating circumstances.

The Committee had not hitherto adopted such a strict approach to these words.

The overall conclusion is that there is evidence of a decline in the use of executions by retentionist States and that a substantial proportion of them have recourse to executions only rarely.

The scale of sexual abuse that is, when the exploitation becomes criminal was somewhat more difficult to gauge.

4 President of the Forces de Future Party, detained on 25 November 1997, tortured, sentenced by the military court, and freed on 24 May.

Since the enactment of section 203A, there has been a steady increase in the sentencing of trafficking offences and in the last 2 years, there has been a series of very serious sentences meted out to traffickers.

United Kingdom, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Human Rights Annual Report 2004 (HM Stationary Office, 2004), p. 190.

(a) Increase in the number of technical assistance projects initiated in the area of criminal justice reform

The Working Group is, however, not entirely indifferent to the sentencing policies of States.

The level of civilization of a society can be measured by its attitude towards the death penalty.

It is doubtful therefore that a sentencing policy resulting in an incarceration rate of 500 out of every 100,000 residents can find an objective and acceptable explanation, when the sentencing policy of another State produces a 100 out of every 100,000 rate.

For the first time, the Commission on Human Rights adopted a resolution on capital punishment in which it called upon all States that have not yet abolished the death penalty progressively to restrict the number of offences for which the death penalty may be imposed .

(3) The Committee notes with appreciation the decrease in the number of crimes punishable by the death penalty and the moratorium of April 2004 on the imposition and execution of death sentences, as well as the commutation of all existing death sentences in the State party.

504. The Special Rapporteur is concerned about the allegations received in regard to the large number of executions and the provision of the death penalty for drug related offences.

Parties to the Convention would be obligated to criminalize in their domestic law offences at least equivalent to those in the proposed Protocol, but would not be precluded from adopting or maintaining domestic law provisions more stringent than those in the Convention.

These figures confirm the fact that the number of countries in which executions regularly take place continues to dwindle.

The information is used to quantify the volume of activity in criminal courts and to help identify crime types.

6.4 In essence, the author's main argument relates to the legal qualification of the purchase of the above amount of marijuana, considered as small under the law in force in 1996, and large under the new Criminal Code of 1997.

The force on the left is never coming under the purview of the International Criminal Court.

The Special Rapporteur on torture had received allegations of the extensive practice of torture by the Turkish police.

The International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO Interpol) anticipates increased heroin manufacture in the second half of the 1990s, driven by increased demand.International Criminal Police Organization, Global Heroin Challenge Changing Scenario, 1995 (1995), p. 1.

In only one country, Viet Nam, does the estimated number of executions appear to have increased substantially and regularly during the period 64 (50 per cent) of the 128 executions recorded over the five year period having taken place in 2003, compared with 8 in 1999.

Of great significance is the fact that the number of de facto abolitionist countries has increased considerably (see table 1) and that even amongst retentionist countries, only 43 had carried out any judicial executions over the whole five year period.

He states that in 1996 he was charged with possession of a small quantity of marijuana, and in November 1997 was convicted and sentenced to a term of imprisonment.

As the next section will show, only a small handful of these carried out large numbers of executions.

Croatia's Penal Code provided penalties for those engaging in crimes such as cross border prostitution, the abuse of minors involving pornography and the illegal cross border transport of persons.

In appeal, the Moscow City Court determined that the possession of such an amount of drugs was a crime both under the old and the new Code.

This is a lower figure than the seven formerly de facto abolitionist countries that resumed executions during the quinquennium 1994 1998.

The issue that must accordingly be decided is whether the sentence in the instant case is compatible with article 6, paragraph 2, of the Covenant, which allows for the imposition of the death penalty only quot for the most serious crimes quot .

At the beginning of 1999, 70 countries had already abolished the death penalty for all crimes, a considerably higher number than at the beginning of the previous quinquennium, in 1993, when there had been 55 completely abolitionist countries.