They urged the judge to sentence Libby to prison, saying the nature of the investigation Libby obstructed was so serious that he should serve time.
Mr Straw's most recent intervention was on 30 January when he contacted the chairman of the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole to urge them to commute the death sentence to a prison term and reiterate Britain's opposition to capital punishment.
Judge Kiarie said he had decided to sentence them to life in prison because the "cry of victims of previous terrorist attacks is louder" than their pleas for leniency, AFP reports.
He has the power to reduce the sentence to life in prison, although such reductions of jury-imposed sentences are rare.
If Breivik is found to be sane, the court could sentence him to the traditional 21-year prison sentence, the maximum term for a homicide or terror act conviction, but he must be released after serving that sentence.
He was originally given a community service order for committing the assault but refused to comply with the sentence and was then sent to prison by Manchester magistrates.
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Lia Berger is scheduled to report to prison to begin her sentence on April 30, 2014 (next year).
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Prosecutors have asked the judge to sentence him to more than three years in prison.
Die Hard director John McTiernan has lost his appeal to have a one-year prison sentence overturned for lying to the FBI in a wiretapping case.
Prosecutors asked the judge to sentence Mr. Bonds to 15 months in prison, though the U.S. Probation Office, which recommends sentences in federal cases, suggested he serve probation and no prison time.
Nevertheless, he is standing on a law-and-order platform: he has gathered support by attacking a government proposal to cut the maximum prison sentence for serious crimes from 30 to 20 years, an ill-timed measure given Sao Paulo's rising murder rate.
Lady Paton, who heard the appeal with Lord Mackay, said they would reduce McNeill's prison sentence to a 12-year term.
Howell is expected to receive a prison sentence of at least a decade after his plea to one count of committing bank and wire fraud.
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The Supreme Court reduced his prison sentence to five years.
Lord Bannatyne ordered the prison sentence to begin at the end of Holgate's present jail term and extended the time he will remain on licence, after his release, by two-and-a-half years.
In Pittsburgh, John Brennan (Russell Crowe), a community-college literature teacher faced with losing his wife, Lara (Elizabeth Banks), to a lifetime prison sentence (she has been convicted of murder), tries to spring her from a massive county jail.
"When he's finished explaining those ethical lapses, perhaps he can then explain what he knew about his former Giuliani administration buddy Bernie Kerik, " said the Quinn campaign spokesman, Mike Morey, referring to the former police commissioner serving a federal prison sentence after pleading guilty to corruption charges.
The charge of conspiring to intercept communications without lawful authority carries a sentence of up to two years in prison or a fine.
If he loses the appeal he is expected to serve his sentence in a British prison, as the Dutch government only agreed to host the trial if any ensuing jail term was served in another country.
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Judges are entitled to enhance the prison sentence someone must serve if it can be shown that the defendant used sophisticated means to carry out a fraud.
Prosecutors allege Blake killed Bakley after "lying in wait" -- a special circumstance that can carry a death sentence under California law -- but they have decided to seek a sentence of life in prison without parole, if Blake is convicted.
Leona Helmsley (pictured being booked for tax evasion charges that led to a prison sentence).
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Sean Quinn has been taken to prison to begin a nine-week sentence for contempt of court.
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The judge said he would not sentence Sandusky to "centuries in prison, although the law will permit that".
Manson's death sentence was changed to life in prison after California's death penalty was overturned for a period during the 1970s.
The purpose of a prison sentence is to punish and also keep offenders away from society to prevent them from harming others.
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After the Supreme Court ruled in 2005 that states could not execute the mentally disabled, his sentence was commuted to life in prison, where he still sits.
To the extent that judges sentence convicted executives to community service in place of prison, the work should not be an opportunity for those felons, whatever their social standing, to pad their resumes with marquee humanitarian work.
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Kluger recently reported to Butner Federal Prison to begin serving a 12 year sentence.
Steinberg was charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud and four counts of securities fraud, and faces a lengthy prison sentence if convicted: up to five years for the conspiracy charges, and twenty years for each of the securities fraud charges.
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