Descriptions & Equivalents
- automatic life sentence
- condemned to death
- clemency from the governor
- defendant received a sweetheart deal
- disproportionate sentence
- faces multiple counts of reckless endangerment
- facing a possible death sentence
- fifteen life terms
- five to ten in the pen
- given a slap on the wrist
- given the chair
- got off easy
- house arrest
- life in prison without the possibility of parole
- mandatory minimum sentencing
- one hundred lashes
- non-parolable
- plea deal will pre-empt a jury trial
- pretrial diversion program
- prosecutors asked for ten years
- received the death penalty
- sentenced from the bench
- sent to Death Row
- thirty days in county
- three years of hard labor
- will spend three decades behind bars
- two concurrent terms of life imprisonment