Speaking in court, Mr Justice Openshaw said the crimes committed required very long sentences.
The stakes are huge, especially given the incredibly long sentences that are handed out for convicted corporate execs.
This is the plot in two, somewhat long sentences, to avoid any spoilers.
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While many believe that long sentences act as a deterrent, there is no study that supports this among white-collar offenders.
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In Bharatpur jail 105 people are in custody for poaching, many serving long sentences for minor offences such as providing food to poachers.
The barrister told the BBC "ringleaders should receive very long sentences" but warned "there was an issue of proportionality" over the way people already before the courts had been treated.
Deciphering the Pope's often dense theological language, analysing his long sentences replete with subordinate clauses, makes the selection of pithy soundbites a real challenge to Vatican radio and TV reporters.
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The commission had insisted The Coalition for Fairness, which aimed at relaxing long sentences for drug offenses, was lobbying, while the coalition said it was exercising its right to free speech.
Some believe such long sentences send an important message.
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They imposed long sentences for non-violent drug crimes and they denied judges the power to consider extenuating circumstances, or indeed anything other than the convict's criminal history and the amount of drugs, when sentencing.
Prosecutors can believe, or state, all they want that a long sentence for Jiau is a message for Wall Street, but there is no support that long sentences deter other people from committing crimes.
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Eighteen Somalis are serving long prison sentences there and more than 100 are awaiting trial.
According to the FBI, many of the convictions have resulted in long prison sentences, including eight life terms.
Knox and Sollecito were initially convicted and given long prison sentences: 26 years for Knox, 25 for Sollecito.
The veteran lawmaker said Wednesday that he thinks long prison sentences are inhumane.
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Both were imprisoned in Colombia in the 1990s and later extradited to the US, where they are serving long prison sentences.
The threat of long prison sentences creates an all-or-nothing situation in which top executives refuse to testify in order to avoid self-incrimination.
With more than 50 Farc leaders with US extradition warrants pending and facing the threat of long prison sentences, guerrillas might think twice before surrendering.
Knox and Sollecito were also initially convicted of the murder and given long prison sentences, but were then acquitted on appeal and released in 2011.
The cases against Cardona and Reta -- both are in prison serving long prison sentences for murder -- shed new light into the workings of the drug cartels.
And the critics have long condemned sentences they consider excessive.
There is no doubt that long prison sentences make the general public feel good over the short term, but the costs of incarceration go on for the long term.
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Mr McConnell said he couldn't comment on this individual case, but generally there was a "crisis of confidence" in the courts so long as sentences like this were handed down.
Other than a succinct, scene-by-scene breakdown, Ms. Tharp's program synopsis is but three sentences long.
He talks freely and voluminously, his thoughts unspooling in long, liquid sentences.
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Although his sentences are long and loose, they are not cutely or aimlessly digressive: truth is repeatedly being struck at, not chatted up.
It is written in long and run-on sentences that overwhelm the sense of order and logic.
The former chair of the Criminal Bar Association, Paul Mendelle QC, said sentences were too long and harsh.
He used his knack for languages--he was studying Latin, Mandarin and French--to create a program that could extract the most relevant sentences out of long text.
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