But most of it is about more punitive sentencing, harsher sentencing.

Under normal sentencing procedures,

And he had created it exactly because mandatory sentencing laws were taking the judgment out of judging.

The Pennsylvania sentencing guidelines required a minimum sentence for a crime like this of two years, 24 months.

But it turned out the prosecutor was not happy that Judge Forer ignored the sentencing guidelines and sort of invented her own, and so he appealed.

And yet, at the same time that we continue to execute about the same number of people every year, the number of people who we're sentencing to death on an annual basis has dropped rather steeply.

Anwar s bizarre trial and sentencing on charges of sodomy and abuse of power invigorated the reformasi movement, as growing anti UMNO and anti Mahathir sentiments took hold among Islamic minded Malays. This culminated in poor electoral results for the ruling coalition in November 1999.