11.   Outside court after the verdicts were delivered, one juror began to weep when she learned that the convictions carry a mandatory minimum three-year sentence.

12.   Smuggling convictions can carry penalties from prison time to the death penalty.

13.   That conviction carried a mandatory life sentence in prison.

14.   The conviction carries a mandatory minimum sentence of three years in state prison.

15.   The manslaughter convictions each carry as much as a six-year prison sentence.

16.   Under Massachusetts law, a single, first-degree murder conviction carries an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole.

17.   Rape convictions carry sentences of up to life in prison in Jamaica.

18.   A drug smuggling conviction usually carries the death penalty in Egypt.

19.   A conviction carries a mandatory death penalty, though for years such sentences have been commuted to prison terms in Bermuda.

20.   A conviction could carry up to the death penalty.