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Bankman-Fried is serving a 25-year prison sentence after being convicted of fraud.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Due to recurring health issues, the 71-year-old Jair Bolsonaro has been serving his sentence under house arrest in Brasilia.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
The previous 32-week sentence he was released from early had been suspended but he was jailed for breaching its terms.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Of particular significance to San Francisco 49ers fullback Juszczyk and Dallas Cowboys tight end Ferguson is this sentence: “Recent celebrations imitating drinking a beverage will not be considered violations or result in discipline.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Her hands came down on the top of the orange again, causing less of a splash than the last time, but punctuating her sentence nicely.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
Over the past 50 years, all prisoners who received death sentences were convicted of murder, though capital punishment was also used for rape convictions before that.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Jeon Ji-su, the professor who led the Woosuk research team, told the BBC that investigators had accepted "only the accounts of people who could describe the abuse in complete sentences".
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Malaysia insists all returnees agreed to voluntary repatriation from detention centres, where Myanmar says they had completed sentences for immigration offences.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
Sure, it owes a debt to Faulkner—with its high diction and sentences that outpace their punctuation—but it isn’t imitating him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
I had barely said more than a few sentences to Nalu or Ollie.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
Debs was sentenced to six months for defying the injunction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
O'Lali, 28, of Breton Court in Lisburn, was sentenced to two years and seven months in relation to what the judge described in court as a "shameful litany of events".
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
If convicted, the three will be sentenced next week.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Nidal Hasan was sentenced to death in 2013 by a jury of fellow officers at the Texas Army base.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
October 15: Four women were arrested; two received suspended sentences, and two repeat offenders were sentenced to six months in the workhouse.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
The sensational trial of Holmes ended in her 2022 sentencing to more than 11 years in prison for fraud and conspiracy.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Back in Bridgeport, the sentencing proceeded last week like a wedding without a bride.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
A federal judge proceeded with the sentencing in Diamantis’s absence, handing down a seven-year prison sentence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Sheriff John MacRitchie deferred sentencing until 6 November to allow background reports to be carried out.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
He stared stupidly at the superintendent, then dropped his head, like a victim awaiting sentencing.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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