Example sentences of "commute to life " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were tried , convicted of treason and sentenced to death , later commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 2 | In December it was announced that 11 prisoners had been given the death sentence , commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 3 | Kuwait : Osamah Suhail Hussaid — under sentence of death , commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 4 | Malawi : Vera Chirwa , originally sentenced to death , commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 5 | William was sentenced to death — commuted to life imprisonment because he was only eighteen . |
| 6 | Prime Minister Nicholas Brathwaite on Aug. 14 commuted to life imprisonment the death sentences passed in December 1986 on the " Grenada 14 " for the October 1983 murder of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and 10 other people . |
| 7 | They were charged with treason and sentenced to death in 1983 , but following international condemnation the sentences were in 1984 commuted to life imprisonment [ see p. 33018 ] . |
| 8 | This was later commuted to life imprisonment , but Dr Banda has stated since that the Chirwas should be executed . |
| 9 | After an international outcry , the sentences were commuted to life imprisonment , and the couple were adopted as prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International . |
| 10 | In 1990 the state of Louisiana electrocuted Dalton Prejean , despite a recommendation by the Pardons and Parole Board that his sentence be commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 11 | One of those condemned to death legally , in August 1945 , was Pétain , though his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 12 | Although Jiang had been sentenced to death in 1981 for " counter-revolutionary crimes " [ see pp. 30833-36 ] , her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1983 [ see p. 32505 ] . |
| 13 | Ten army officers sentenced to death in connection with the coup attempt of the previous August [ see p. 38380 ] had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment on Dec. 3 . |
| 14 | Seven law lords acting as the highest court in the Commonwealth have ruled that two men on death row in Jamaica for fourteen years should have their sentence commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 15 | Like Earl Pratt and Ivan Morgan they 're all now expected to have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment . |