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A Chinese military court issued suspended death sentences to two former defense ministers for corruption, punctuating a broad purge of China’s armed forces that has ousted most of the high command.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
This means their death sentences will be commuted to life imprisonment after two years, without the possibility of sentence reduction or parole, Xinhua reports.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
As mayor, she said, she would have nonviolent jail inmates pick up litter in exchange for time off their sentences.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
But lawmakers on Thursday overrode his veto of a law changing how prison sentences are calculated.
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
The bill created dozens of new federal capital crimes, mandated life sentences for some “three-strikers,” and authorized more than $16 billion for state prison grants and expansion of state and local police forces.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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