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And Abubakar is clearly making the transition to Western political values--he summed up his predecessor's reign of corruption and false imprisonment thus: "mistakes have been made."
The marginal cost of killing an innocent party would be quite low if the sanction for stealing radios were life imprisonment for first-time offenders.
Carnahan commuted Mease's sentence to life imprisonment.
It accused Starr of treating "the pitiful lie of a seducer" as a state crime that could, in theory, lead to a year's imprisonment.
In an editorial Thursday, the newspaper said the French government might not be wrong to want to integrate the Syrian president into the process rather than exclude him, but asked, "All the same, can one tolerate the imprisonment of more than two thousand prisoners of conscience in a country which one is seeking to make one's 'strategic partner'?"