Community Board 6 passed a resolution calling for a strict sentence.

"If they're fairly convicted, they should be put away forever," she said yesterday, defending her reputation for strict sentences.

The change, the officials said, will let the judges monitor the cases more closely and issue stricter sentences for felons who violate probation.

Mr. Amundson had been the appellate judge who upheld that unusually strict sentence.

The defense will be able to argue against the stricter sentence at a hearing before Justice Fisch on June 4.

Some Islamic countries with Islamic law outlaw and carry strict sentences for proselytizing.

Drug possession criminalisation (in most cases punishable by a stricter sentence than rape or assault)

Gül Baba destroys his rose garden and says to the pasha that it was done by Allah, who is angry because of the strict sentence.

Before any debate could take place he was arrested, imprisoned, and Théodore de Bèze and Heinrich Bullinger urged the bailiff to take the strictest sentence.

The governor said the initiative, available to district attorneys, was not a substitute for his efforts to revise the state's Rockefeller-era drug laws, which require strict sentences for minor drug offenses.

His interest was sparked by the Justice for Dustin Campaign-an endeavour by the family of a murdered Kitchener teen to see stricter sentences for violent young offenders.

The two sides disagree on how much discretion a judge should have to send people to drug treatment, and on how to release some people currently in jail because of the strict sentences.

Thomas Yates, the victim's father who originally championed Adams' guilt and lobbied for stricter sentences against minors convicted of murder, later criticized the way the police and prosecution had handled the case.

Immigration and the District Attorney's office assert that efforts thus far have been inadequate, as there have only been two human trafficking cases ending in a strict sentence since the passing of these laws.

Officials acknowledge that the classification is largely symbolic, because New York State, unlike some other states, has never enacted a hate-crime law that imposes stricter sentences when bias can be proved as a motive.

'Stay Downtown' While Mr. Olsen appreciated the on-site services, he felt that defendants who would have been sentenced to time served downtown were getting stricter sentences - fines and community service - in the new court.

With one day left in the scheduled legislative session, the Senate Republicans said they would pass a new bill tonight aimed at breaking the deadlock with the Assembly Democrats over how to soften the state's strict sentences for drug crimes.

In Season two, Phelan presides over the trial of Marquis "Bird" Hilton for the murder of Gant, during which he is amused by Omar Little's testimony, and pleased to give Bird a strict sentence.

The NYT and USAT top fronts feature stories about yesterday's court proceeding in Arkansas in which a twelve-year-old and a fourteen-year-old were given the strictest sentence available to juveniles, for shooting to death four students and a teacher: confinement in a juvenile detention center until age 18.

In a ruling that reassured anti-discrimination groups concerned that a recent Supreme Court decision would weaken New Jersey's hate crimes law, a state Superior Court judge today imposed a strict sentence on a man who had pleaded guilty to an anti-Semitic rock-throwing spree in a heavily Jewish section of the city.